page_title: Eikev
section_title: Second reading — Deuteronomy 8:11–9:3
hierarchical_section_title: Eikev / Readings / Second reading — Deuteronomy 8:11–9:3
caption_attribution_description: English: The Golden Calf, Exodus 32:1-8, 30-35, illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company
context_page_description: Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, Aikev, or Eqeb is the 46th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Deuteronomy. It comprises Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25. The parashah tells of the blessings of obedience to God, the dangers of forgetting God, and directions for taking the Land of Israel. Moses recalls the making and re-making of the Tablets of Stone, the incident of the Golden Calf, Aaron's death, the Levites' duties, and exhortations to serve God.
  The parashah is made up of 6,865 Hebrew letters, 1,747 Hebrew words, 111 verses, and 232 lines in a Torah Scroll. Jews generally read it in August or on rare occasion in late July.
context_section_description: In the second reading (עליה, aliyah), Moses warned the Israelites not to forget God, not to violate God's commandments, and not to grow haughty and believe that their own power had won their wealth, but to remember that God gave them the power to prosper. The second open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) ends here.
  Moses warned that if they forgot God and followed other gods, then they would certainly perish like the nations that God was going to displace from the land. The third open portion (פתוחה, petuchah) ends here with the end of chapter 8.
  Moses warned the Israelites that they were to dispossess nations greater than they, but God would go before them as a devouring fire to drive out the land's inhabitants. The second reading (עליה, aliyah) ends here.
caption: The Golden Calf (illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company)
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