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 5,416
Genesis 1:1-13 (Eve of the Theophany) 1 min 5,419
Genesis 1:1-13 (1st Monday of Lent) 2 mins 8,723
Genesis 1:14-23 (1st Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 6,219
Genesis 1:24-2:3 (1st Wednesday of Lent) 2 mins 7,510
Genesis 2:4-19 (1st Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 5,982
Genesis 2:20-3:20 (1st Friday of lent) 4 mins 8,194
Genesis 3:21-4:7 (2nd Monday of Lent) 1 min 5,921
Genesis 4:8-15 (2nd Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 5,643
Genesis 4:16-26 (2nd Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4,544
Genesis 5:1-24 (2nd Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 4,410
Genesis 5:32-6:8 (2nd Friday of Lent) 1 min 4,944
Genesis 6:9-22 (3rd Monday of Lent) 2 mins 4,823
Genesis 7:1-5 (3rd Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 5,859
Genesis 7:6-9 (3rd Wednesday of Lent) - 5,798
Genesis 7:11-8:3 (3rd Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 6,109
Genesis 8:4-21 (3rd Friday of Lent) 2 mins 5,959
Genesis 8:21-9:7 (4th Monday of Lent) 1 min 4,371
Genesis 9:8-17 (4th Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 4,733
Genesis 9:18-10:1(4th Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4,778
Genesis 10:32-11:9 (4th Thursday of Lent) 1 min 4,494
Genesis 12:1-7 (4th Friday of Lent) 1 min 5,070
Genesis 13:12-18 (5th Monday of Lent) 1 min 4,453
Genesis 14:14-20 (Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council – Vespers) 1 min 5,915