 In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or , "aliyot".In the masoretic text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parashah Eikev has six "open portion" (, "petuchah") divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter ("peh")).Parashah Eikev has several further subdivisions, called "closed portions" (, "setumah") (abbreviated with the Hebrew letter ("samekh")) within the open portion (, "petuchah") divisions.