were not. Similarly, Rav Joseph asked whether belongs to the first half or the second half of verses. Abaye replied that for verses, at least, we can bring a Scroll and count them. But Rav Joseph replied that even with verses, they could no longer be certain. For when Rav Aha bar Adda came (from the Land of Israel to Babylon), he said that in the West (in the Land of Israel), they divided into three verses. Nonetheless, the Rabbis taught in a Baraita that there are 5,888 verses in the Torah. (Note that others say the middle letter in our current Torah text is the aleph () in , hu ("he") in the middle two words are , el yesod ("at the base of") in the half-way point of the verses in the Torah is and there are 5,846 verses in the Torah text we have today.) The Sifra taught that the words "and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear" in refer to the middle ridge of the ear. And the Sifra taught that the words "and upon the thumb of his right hand" in refer to the middle knuckle. A Master said in a Baraita that the use of the thumb for service in and 17, 25, and 28 showed that every finger has its own unique purpose. Rabbi Jacob bar Acha taught in the name of Rabbi Zorah that the command to Aaron in "at the door of the tent of meeting shall you abide day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord," served as a source for the law of seven days of mourning for the death of a relative (, shivah). Rabbi Jacob bar Acha interpreted Moses to tell Aaron that just as God observed seven days of mourning for the then-upcoming destruction of the world at the time of the Flood of Noah, so too Aaron would observe seven days of mourning for the upcoming death of his sons Nadab and Abihu. And we know that God observed seven days of mourning for the destruction of the world by the Flood from which says, "And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the Flood were upon the earth." The Gemara asked whether one mourns before a death, as Jacob bar Acha appears to argue happened in these two cases. In reply, the