One who reads the Megillah may stand or sit. Whether one person read it, or two read it, they have fulfilled their obligation.  Where they are accustomed to recite a blessing [afterward], one should recite the blessing; [where the custom is] not to recite a blessing, one need not recite the blessing.  On Monday and Thursday, and on Sabbath afternoon, three [people] read [the Torah]; we may not decrease them nor add to them; and we do not conclude [the reading with a section] from the Prophets.  The one who commences and the one who concludes [the reading of] the Torah [respectively] recite the blessings [said] before it and after it.

On Rosh Chodesh and on Chol HaMoed, four [people] read [the Torah]; we may not decrease them nor add to them; and we do not conclude [the reading with a section] from the Prophets. The one who commences and the one who concludes [the reading of] the Torah [respectively] recite the blessings [said] before it and after it.  This is the general rule: [On] any day on which there is a Musaf but which is not a festival, four [people] read [the Torah]. On festivals, five [people read]; on Yom Kippur, six [people read]; and on the Sabbath, seven [people read]; we may not decrease them but we may increase them; and we conclude [the reading with a section] from the Prophets. The one who commences and the one who concludes [the reading of] the Torah [respectively] recite the blessings [said] before it and after it.

We may not divide the Shema; nor go before the Ark; nor [may the Kohanim] lift their hands [to recite the priestly blessing]; nor do we read [publicly] from the Torah; nor do we conclude [with a section] from the Prophets; nor do we make standing and sitting [tributes at a funeral]; nor do we say the mourners’ blessing, nor the consolations to the mourners; nor [are] the wedding blessings [recited]; nor is [God’s] Name mentioned in the invitation [to the Grace After Meals] in the presence of fewer than ten [men]. In [the appraisal of] lands, nine [men] and a Kohen [are required]; and [the appraisal of] a human is the same.

One who reads the Torah may not read fewer than three verses. He may not read more than one verse [at a time] for the translator; and in the section from the Prophets [he may not read more than] three [verses at a time]. If the three [verses] are three paragraphs, we read them one by one.  One is permitted to skip in [the reading of] the Prophets, but one may not skip in [the reading of] the Torah. How much is one permitted to skip? No more than what would cause the translator to pause.