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 5382
Genesis 1:1-13 (Eve of the Theophany) 1 min 5392
Genesis 1:1-13 (1st Monday of Lent) 2 mins 8697
Genesis 1:14-23 (1st Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 6190
Genesis 1:24-2:3 (1st Wednesday of Lent) 2 mins 7488
Genesis 2:4-19 (1st Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 5958
Genesis 2:20-3:20 (1st Friday of lent) 4 mins 8164
Genesis 3:21-4:7 (2nd Monday of Lent) 1 min 5897
Genesis 4:8-15 (2nd Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 5621
Genesis 4:16-26 (2nd Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4531
Genesis 5:1-24 (2nd Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 4391
Genesis 5:32-6:8 (2nd Friday of Lent) 1 min 4929
Genesis 6:9-22 (3rd Monday of Lent) 2 mins 4804
Genesis 7:1-5 (3rd Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 5839
Genesis 7:6-9 (3rd Wednesday of Lent) - 5775
Genesis 7:11-8:3 (3rd Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 6084
Genesis 8:4-21 (3rd Friday of Lent) 2 mins 5938
Genesis 8:21-9:7 (4th Monday of Lent) 1 min 4350
Genesis 9:8-17 (4th Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 4715
Genesis 9:18-10:1(4th Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4760
Genesis 10:32-11:9 (4th Thursday of Lent) 1 min 4479
Genesis 12:1-7 (4th Friday of Lent) 1 min 5049
Genesis 13:12-18 (5th Monday of Lent) 1 min 4429
Genesis 14:14-20 (Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council – Vespers) 1 min 5876