What is "eikev"

Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, Aikev, or Eqeb ( — Hebrew for "if [you follow]," the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 46th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Deuteronomy. It comprises The parashah is made up of 6,865 Hebrew letters, 1,747 Hebrew words, and 111 verses, and can occupy about 232 lines in a Torah Scroll (, Sefer Torah).

Jews generally read it in August or on rare occasion in late July.

The parashah tells of the blessings of obedience to God and the dangers of forgetting God, directions for taking the land, 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.