
thumb|right|450px|''The Seventh Plague of Egypt (1823 painting by John Martin) '''Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera' (—Hebrew for "and I appeared," the first word that God speaks in the , in Exodus 6:3) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion () in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 6:2–9:35. The parashah'' tells of the first seven Plagues of Egypt.
thumb|right|450px|''The Seventh Plague of Egypt (1823 painting by John Martin) '''Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera' (—Hebrew for "and I appeared," the first word that God speaks in the , in Exodus 6:3) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion () in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 6:2–9:35. The parashah tells of the first seven Plagues of Egypt.
Religious Jews read it the fourteenth Shabbat after Simchat Torah—generally in January, or rarely, in late December.
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