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 5380
Genesis 1:1-13 (Eve of the Theophany) 1 min 5389
Genesis 1:1-13 (1st Monday of Lent) 2 mins 8694
Genesis 1:14-23 (1st Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 6186
Genesis 1:24-2:3 (1st Wednesday of Lent) 2 mins 7486
Genesis 2:4-19 (1st Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 5954
Genesis 2:20-3:20 (1st Friday of lent) 4 mins 8162
Genesis 3:21-4:7 (2nd Monday of Lent) 1 min 5896
Genesis 4:8-15 (2nd Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 5616
Genesis 4:16-26 (2nd Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4528
Genesis 5:1-24 (2nd Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 4389
Genesis 5:32-6:8 (2nd Friday of Lent) 1 min 4926
Genesis 6:9-22 (3rd Monday of Lent) 2 mins 4800
Genesis 7:1-5 (3rd Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 5834
Genesis 7:6-9 (3rd Wednesday of Lent) - 5771
Genesis 7:11-8:3 (3rd Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 6080
Genesis 8:4-21 (3rd Friday of Lent) 2 mins 5936
Genesis 8:21-9:7 (4th Monday of Lent) 1 min 4344
Genesis 9:8-17 (4th Tuesday of Lent) 1 min 4712
Genesis 9:18-10:1(4th Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4755
Genesis 10:32-11:9 (4th Thursday of Lent) 1 min 4474
Genesis 12:1-7 (4th Friday of Lent) 1 min 5045
Genesis 13:12-18 (5th Monday of Lent) 1 min 4426
Genesis 14:14-20 (Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council – Vespers) 1 min 5875