The parashah is made up of 2,123 Hebrew letters, 553 Hebrew words, 30 verses, and 72 lines in a Torah Scroll. Jews generally read it in September or, rarely, late August or early October, on the Sabbath immediately before Rosh Hashanah. The lunisolar Hebrew calendar contains 50 weeks in common years, and 54 or 55 weeks in leap years. In some leap years (for example, 2021, 2022, and 2025), Parashat Nitzavim is read separately. In common years (for example, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2026, and 2027), Parashat Nitzavim is combined with the next parashah, Vayelech, to help achieve the number of weekly readings needed. The two Torah portions are combined except when two Sabbaths fall between Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot and neither Sabbath coincides with a Holy Day. In the standard Reform prayerbook for the High Holy Days (, "machzor"), parts of the parashah, and , are the Torah readings for the morning Yom Kippur service, in lieu of the traditional reading of .