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 15:1-15 (5th Tuesday of Lent) 2 mins 4,235
Genesis 17:1-2, 4, 5-7, 8, 9-10, 11-12, 14 (Circumcision of Our Lord – Vespers) 1 min 5,554
Genesis 17:15-17, 19; 18:11-14; 21:1-8 (Vespers – FORERUNNER) 2 mins 4,112
Genesis 17:1-9 (5th Wednesday of Lent) 1 min 4,615
Genesis 18:20-33 (5th Thursday of Lent) 2 mins 4,667
Genesis 22:1-18 (5th Friday of Lent) 3 mins 4,798
Genesis 27:1-41 (6th Monday of Lent) 5 mins 4,321
Genesis 28:10-17 (Annunciation fore feast) 1 min 6,436
Genesis 31:3-16 (6th Tuesday of Lent) 2 mins 4,958
Genesis 32:1-10 (Eve of the Theophany) 1 min 5,190
Genesis 43:26-31; 45:1-16 (6th Wednesday of Lent) 3 mins 4,732
Genesis 46:1-7 (6th Thursday of Lent) 1 min 4,430
Genesis 49:33-50:26 (6th Friday of Lent) 4 mins 5,046