Code of the day · 2027-08-27
Friday · 24 Av 5787
טֶרֶם יִשְׁכָּבוּ וְאַנְשֵׁי הָעִיר אַנְשֵׁי סְדֹם נָסַבּוּ עַל־הַבַּיִת מִנַּעַר וְעַד־זָקֵן כָּל־הָעָם מִקָּצֶה
«But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.»
Bereshit (Genesis) 19:4 · page 27 of 354
This is from the portion “Vayera” (Genesis 18–22). What it is about: Three visitors at Abraham's tent; the plea for Sodom; the birth of Isaac; the binding of Isaac on Mount Moriah.
Nobody picked it: the letters of today's date add up to 27, and that is page 27 of the 354 pages of the Torah — the first five books of the Bible.
The word with this number is read this very week.
The same number was already written down around 1573: כז = יגיד
In the database it appears 11 times across 9 books. We do not claim this proves anything: we show who wrote it and when, and we recounted it ourselves.
Person of the day
Three names from three eras sharing one small number
Abraham's nephew, who chose for himself the valley that looked like a garden. He was led out of the city by the hand, told not to look back.
Tradition holds that he was both born and died on this day, exactly one hundred and twenty years apart.
One of the most read authors in Europe between the wars. He fled Nazism to Brazil and there finished The World of Yesterday.
What connects them
For all three the main thing became visible at the end: the sum turned out larger than any single act.
Nine is the last digit: after it the count begins again. A day for closing rather than opening. Good for finishing things and settling debts, financial and otherwise.
What would you want to finish before starting something new?
How the small number works: the digits are added until one remains. Non-Hebrew names are written in Hebrew letters by ordinary transliteration; variants exist, and the number depends on the spelling. We show the letters so it can be checked. This is a coincidence of counting, not a claim about fate. It is interesting exactly insofar as you can see how it was counted.
How it is obtained
24 + 3 = 27 · total
This week's portion
Re'eh ראה
This Hebrew date across 301 years
A Torah word with this number
A rare meeting: the number of today's date and a word from the portion read this week have come together.
A name from this week's portion
This figure acts in the portion read this week. Their number is shown alongside — with no claim that it matches anything.
Psalms of the day
Under the customary division of the book of Psalms across the thirty days of the month, today's reading is 113-118.
Text: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0. The four-letter Name is not printed in our output and is replaced by ה׳.
Reading of the reduced number
Nine is the last digit: after it the count begins again. A day for closing rather than opening. Good for finishing things and settling debts, financial and otherwise.
What follows is an interpretation, not a calculation. The reduced number comes from adding the digits; everything else on this page can be checked, and this cannot.
More
- The number 27 in full
- Calculator, 25 methods
- Method and figures
- This date across 301 years
- Your own birth code
Text and morphology: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0. Calendar and portion boundaries: hebcal. Memorial dates follow tradition or the sources noted with each entry.