Matot
Sign in to saveright|thumb|300px|The hills of Gilead (current day Jal'ad, Jordan) Matot, Mattot, Mattoth, or Matos (—Hebrew for "tribes", the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 42nd weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Numbers. It comprises Numbers 30:2–32:42. It discusses laws of vows, the destruction of Midianite towns, and negotiations of the Reubenites and Gadites to settle land outside of Israel.
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35 sectionsContents
- Readings
- First reading—Numbers 30:2–17
- Second reading—Numbers 31:1–12
- Third reading—Numbers 31:13–24
- Fourth reading—Numbers 31:25–41
- Fifth reading—Numbers 31:42–54
- Sixth reading—Numbers 32:1–19
- Seventh reading—Numbers 32:20–42
- Readings according to the triennial cycle
- In inner-biblical interpretation
- Numbers chapter 31
- In early nonrabbinic interpretation
- Numbers chapter 30
- In classical rabbinic interpretation
- Numbers chapter 30
- Numbers chapter 31
- Numbers chapter 32
- In medieval Jewish interpretation
- Numbers chapter 32
- Commandments
- According to Maimonides
- According to Sefer ha-Chinuch
- Haftarah
- Summary
- Connection to the special Sabbath
- Notes
- Further reading
- Biblical
- Early nonrabbinic
- Classical rabbinic
- Medieval
- Modern
- External links
- Texts
- Commentaries
right|thumb|300px|The hills of Gilead (current day Jal'ad, Jordan) Matot, Mattot, Mattoth, or Matos (—Hebrew for "tribes", the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 42nd weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Numbers. It comprises Numbers 30:2–32:42. It discusses laws of vows, the destruction of Midianite towns, and negotiations of the Reubenites and Gadites to settle land outside of Israel.
The parashah is made up of 5,652 Hebrew letters, 1,484 Hebrew words, 112 verses, and 190 lines in a Torah Scroll (, Sefer Torah). Jews generally read it in July or early August. The lunisolar Hebrew calendar contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between 50 in common years and 54 or 55 in leap years. In some leap years (for example, 2014), parashah Matot is read separately. In most years (all coming years until 2035 in both the Diaspora and Israel), parashah Matot is combined with the next parashah, Masei, to help achieve the number of weekly readings needed.