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I am trying to find out how many words there are in the Torah. Short of counting by hand, can you help?
According to my concordance (Avraham Even Shoshan), here are the stats.
| Book | # Parshas | # Chapters | # Verses | # Words | # Letters |
| Genesis | 12 | 50 | 1,534 | 20,512 | 78,064 |
| Exodus | 11 | 40 | 1,209 | 16,723 | 63,529 |
| Leviticus | 10 | 27 | 859 | 11,950 | 44,790 |
| Numbers | 10 | 36 | 1,288 | 16,368 | 63,530 |
| Deuteronomy | 11 | 34 | 955 | 14,294 | 54,892 |
| TOTAL | 54 | 187 | 5,845 | 79,847 | 304,805 |
Incidentally, Rabbi Even Shoshan wrote his concordance before the advent of computers! He wrote it by hand, and when there was a pogrom against the Jews, his work was destroyed. So he started from scratch and rewrote it.
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