Va’etchanan (וָאֶתְחַנַּן‎)— Hebrew for “and I pleaded,” the first word in the parashah and is the 45th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה‎, parashah) in the annual cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Deuteronomy. It covers Deuteronomy 3:23–7:11