Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Third Week of Great Lent - Page of 22
Monday in the Third Week - At Vespers
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 43, in the 4th Tone: In
God we will boast all the day long, and in Thy name will we
give praise in the age to come.
Stichos:
O God, with our ears have we heard, for our fathers
have told us.
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from Genesis.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Gen 6:9-22
Reader:
9.
But Noe found grace before the Lord God.
10.
And
these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man;
being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to
God.
11.
And Noe begot three sons, Sem, Cham, Japheth.
12.
But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was
filled with iniquity.
13.
And the Lord God saw the earth, and
it was corrupted; because all flesh had corrupted its way
upon the earth.
14.
And the Lord God said to Noe, A period
of all men is come before me; because the earth has been
filled with iniquity by them, and, behold, I destroy them
and the earth.
15.
Make therefore for thyself an ark of
square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments,
and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
16.
And
thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the
length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty
cubits the height of it.
17.
Thou shalt narrow the ark in
making it, and in a cubit above thou shalt finish it, and the
door of the ark thou shalt make on the side; with lower,
second, and third stories thou shalt make it.
18.
And behold