 The parashah is made up of 5,856 Hebrew letters, 1,582 Hebrew words, 110 verses, and 213 lines in a Torah Scroll (, "Sefer Torah").Jews generally read the parashah in August or September.Jews also read the part of the parashah about Amalek, as the concluding (, "maftir") reading on Shabbat Zachor, the special Sabbath immediately before Purim, which commemorates the story of Esther and the Jewish people's victory over Haman's plan to kill the Jews, told in the book of Esther.