 The first reading (, "aliyah") and a closed portion (, "setumah") end here.In the second reading (, "aliyah"), Moses instructed that if the community executed a man for a capital offense and impaled him on a stake, they were not to let his corpse remain on the stake overnight, but were to bury him the same day, for an impaled body affronted God.A closed portion (, "setumah") ends here with the end of the chapter.