Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Second Week of Great Lent - Page of 24
Friday in the Second Week - At Vespers
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 39, in the 4th Tone: Let
Thy mercy and Thy truth continually help me.
Stichos:
With patience I waited patiently for the Lord, and He
was attentive unto me.
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from Genesis.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Gen 5:32-6:8
Reader:
1.
And Noe was five hundred years old, and he begot
three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
2.
And it came to
pass when men began to be numerous upon the earth, and
daughters were born to them,
3.
that the sons of God
having seen the daughters of men that they were
beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they
chose.
4.
And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly
not remain among these men for ever, because they are
flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
5.
Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and
after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the
daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were
the giants of old, the men of renown.
6.
And the Lord God
having seen that the wicked actions of men were
multiplied upon the earth, and that every one in his heart
was intently brooding over evil continually,
7.
then God laid
it to heart that he had made man upon the earth, and he
pondered it deeply.
8.
And God said, I will blot out man
whom I have made from the face of the earth, even man
with cattle, and reptiles with flying creatures of the sky, for