Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Third Week of Great Lent - Page of 22
Friday in the Third Week - At Vespers
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 59, in the 4th Tone: Give
us help from affliction, for vain is the salvation of man.
Stichos:
O God, Thou hast cast us off and hast destroyed us.
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from Genesis.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Gen 8:4-21
Reader:
4.
And the water continued to decrease until the
tenth month.
5.
And in the tenth month, on the first day of
the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.
6.
And it
came to pass after forty days Noe opened the window of
the ark which he had made.
7.
And he sent forth a raven;
and it went forth and returned not until the water was
dried from off the earth.
8.
And he sent a dove after it to
see if the water had ceased from off the earth.
9.
And the
dove not having found rest for her feet, returned to him
into the ark, because the water was on all the face of the
earth and he stretched out his hand and took her, and
brought her to himself into the ark.
10.
And having waited
yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove from
the ark.
11.
And the dove returned to him in the evening
and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe
knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.
12.
And
having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth
the dove, and she did not return to him again any more.
13.
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of the
life of Noe, in the first month, on the first day of the
month, the water subsided from off the earth and Noe