 In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or , "aliyot".In the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parashah Nitzavim is a single "open portion" (, "petuchah") (roughly equivalent to a paragraph, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter , "peh") and thus can be considered a single unit.Parashah Nitzavim has several further subdivisions, called "closed portion" (, "setumah") divisions (abbreviated with the Hebrew letter , "samekh").