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.
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.
| Reading | Read Time | Hit Count |
|---|---|---|
| Genesis 15:1-15 (5th Tuesday of Lent) | 2 mins | 4135 |
| Genesis 17:1-2, 4, 5-7, 8, 9-10, 11-12, 14 (Circumcision of Our Lord – Vespers) | 1 min | 5447 |
| Genesis 17:15-17, 19; 18:11-14; 21:1-8 (Vespers – FORERUNNER) | 2 mins | 4037 |
| Genesis 17:1-9 (5th Wednesday of Lent) | 1 min | 4490 |
| Genesis 18:20-33 (5th Thursday of Lent) | 2 mins | 4564 |
| Genesis 22:1-18 (5th Friday of Lent) | 3 mins | 4671 |
| Genesis 27:1-41 (6th Monday of Lent) | 5 mins | 4228 |
| Genesis 28:10-17 (Annunciation fore feast) | 1 min | 6302 |
| Genesis 31:3-16 (6th Tuesday of Lent) | 2 mins | 4844 |
| Genesis 32:1-10 (Eve of the Theophany) | 1 min | 5075 |
| Genesis 43:26-31; 45:1-16 (6th Wednesday of Lent) | 3 mins | 4635 |
| Genesis 46:1-7 (6th Thursday of Lent) | 1 min | 4328 |
| Genesis 49:33-50:26 (6th Friday of Lent) | 4 mins | 4946 |