How many words are there in Tanach? already asks about several statistics about Sifrei Tanach, but there's one that was left out:
How many Parshios are in each Sefer of Tanach?
A Parsha is defined as all the text between one gap in a Sefer Torah and the next, whether that gap is a 9-letter space ("setumah"), continues until the end of the line ("pesuchah"), or is the end of the Sefer.
I'm aware that there are different Minhagim on the matter; I'd be curious to see all of the major ones.
Answer
According to the Aleppo Codex the number of breaks are:
- Genesis - 92
- Exodus - 165
- Leviticus - 99
- Numbers - 159
- Deuteronomy - 159
(based on Rambam's testimony in Hilkhot Sefer Torah chapter 8)
- Joshua - 106
- Judges - 88
- Samuel - 369
- Kings - 205
- Isaiah - 242
- Jeremiah - 281
- Ezekiel - 185
- Hosea - 18
- Joel - 7
- Amos - 28
- Obadiah - 1
- Jonah - 4
- Micah - 17
- Nahum - 4
- Habakkuk - 9
- Zephania - 7
- Haggai - 8
- Zachariah - 36
- Malakhi - 8
- Chronicles - 519
- Ruth - 2
- Canticles - 20
- Ecclesiastes - 2
- Lamentations - 134
- Esther - 23
- Daniel - 28
- Ezra - 319
(based on Mechon Mamre's text with variations, based on testimony of the Codex's contents, in places where the Codex is currently missing and MM used another source)
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