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