or divorced daughters, if those daughters had no children. Third reading — Leviticus 22:17–33 In the third reading (, aliyah), only animals without defect qualified for sacrifice. Fourth reading — Leviticus 23:1–22 In the fourth reading (, aliyah), God told Moses to instruct the Israelites to proclaim the following sacred occasions: Shabbat (Sabbath) on the seventh day, a day on which no servile work was to be undertaken Pesach (Passover) for 7 days beginning at twilight of the 14th day of the first month Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) 50 days later Fifth reading — Leviticus 23:23–32 The fifth reading (, aliyah) continues the sacred occasions: Rosh Hashanah (New Year) on the first day of the seventh month Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) on the 10th day of the seventh month Sixth reading — Leviticus 23:33–44 The sixth reading (, aliyah), concludes the sacred occasions: Sukkot (Tabernacles) for 8 days beginning on the 15th day of the seventh month Seventh reading — Leviticus 24:1–23 In the seventh reading (, aliyah), God told Moses to command the Israelites to bring clear olive oil for lighting the lamps of the Tabernacle regularly, from evening to morning. And God called for baking twelve loaves to be placed in the Tabernacle every Sabbath, and thereafter given to the priests, who were to eat them in the sacred precinct. A man with an Israelite mother (from the tribe of Dan) and an Egyptian father got in a fight, and pronounced God's Name in blasphemy. The people brought him to Moses and placed him in custody until God's decision should be made clear. God told Moses to take the blasphemer outside the camp where all who heard him were to lay their hands upon his head, and the whole community was to stone him, and they did so. God instructed that anyone who blasphemed God was to be put to death. Anyone who murdered any human being was to be put to death. One who killed a beast was to make restitution. And anyone who maimed another person was to pay proportionately (in what has been called lex talionis). Readings according to the triennial cycle Jews who read the Torah according to the triennial cycle of Torah reading read the parashah according to the following schedule: In ancient parallels The parashah has parallels in these ancient sources: Leviticus chapter 24 The Code of Hammurabi contained precursors of