 In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or , "aliyot".In the masoretic text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parashah Devarim has no "open portion" (, "petuchah") divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter ("peh")), and thus can be considered one whole unit.Parashah Devarim has five subdivisions, called "closed portions" (, "setumah") (abbreviated with the Hebrew letter ("samekh")).