Scripture Readings - Genesis

Almost all of Genesis is read by a reader at services during Great Lent and Holy Week. It is also read on the eve of some feast days.

The Book of Genesis contains the pre-history of the people of Israel. It starts the first part the Old Testament section of the Bible called the Pentateuch, Torah, or Books of Moses.

The name Genesis comes from the Greek for beginning, origin, or birth because of Septuagint’s division of the Pentateuch into five books. Tradition has it that the Genesis was mostly written by the Prophet Moses 1,300 years before Christ.

Reading Read Time Hit Count
Genesis 1:1-13 (Eve of the Nativity) 1 min 5405
Genesis 1:1-13 (Eve of the Theophany) 1 min 5408
Genesis 1:1-13 (1st Monday of Lent) 2 mins 8714
Genesis 1:14-23 (1st Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 6209
Genesis 1:24-2:3 (1st Wednesday of Lent) 2 mins 7501
Genesis 2:4-19 (1st Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 5974
Genesis 2:20-3:20 (1st Friday of lent) 4 mins 8182
Genesis 3:21-4:7 (2nd Monday of Lent) 1 min 5914
Genesis 4:8-15 (2nd Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 5636
Genesis 4:16-26 (2nd Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4536
Genesis 5:1-24 (2nd Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 4403
Genesis 5:32-6:8 (2nd Friday of Lent) 1 min 4937
Genesis 6:9-22 (3rd Monday of Lent) 2 mins 4815
Genesis 7:1-5 (3rd Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 5853
Genesis 7:6-9 (3rd Wednesday of Lent) - 5788
Genesis 7:11-8:3 (3rd Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 6098
Genesis 8:4-21 (3rd Friday of Lent) 2 mins 5953
Genesis 8:21-9:7 (4th Monday of Lent) 1 min 4363
Genesis 9:8-17 (4th Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 4724
Genesis 9:18-10:1(4th Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4771
Genesis 10:32-11:9 (4th Thursday of Lent) 1 min 4490
Genesis 12:1-7 (4th Friday of Lent) 1 min 5060
Genesis 13:12-18 (5th Monday of Lent) 1 min 4445
Genesis 14:14-20 (Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council – Vespers) 1 min 5901