 In the seventh reading (, "aliyah"), which is also the concluding maftir () reading, Moses promised that if the Israelites faithfully kept the law, loving God, walking in all God's ways, and holding fast to God, then God would dislodge the nations then in the land, and every spot on which their feet tread would be theirs, and their territory would extend from the wilderness to Lebanon and from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean Sea.Parashah Eikev and a closed portion (, "setumah") end here.Jews who read the Torah according to the triennial cycle of Torah reading read the parashah according to the following schedule