Readings for 1 March 2028
17 February 2028 on the Old calendar
- Clean Wednesday
Liturgical colour: purple
Old Testament (Vespers): Genesis 1:24-2:3
Translation: Brenton's English Septuagint
24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, quadrupeds and reptiles and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and it was so. 25And God made the wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, and cattle according to their kind, and all the reptiles of the earth according to their kind, and God saw that they were good. 26And God said, Let us make man according to our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of heaven, and over the cattle and all the earth, and over all the reptiles that creep on the earth. 27And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them. 28And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth. 29And God said, Behold I have given to you every seed-bearing herb sowing seed which is upon all the earth, and every tree which has in itself the fruit of seed that is sown, to you it shall be for food. 30And to all the wild beasts of the earth, and to all the flying creatures of heaven, and to every reptile creeping on the earth, which has in itself the breath of life, even every green plant for food; and it was so. 31And God saw all the things that he had made, and, behold, they were very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. 2:1And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them. 2And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made. 3And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.
Old Testament (Vespers): Proverbs 2:1-22
Translation: Brenton's English Septuagint
1My son, if thou wilt receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with thee; 2thine ear shall hearken to wisdom; thou shalt also apply thine heart to understanding, and shalt apply it to the instruction of thy son. 3For if thou shalt call to wisdom, and utter thy voice for understanding; 4and if thou shalt seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; 5then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. 6For the Lord gives wisdom; and from his presence come knowledge and understanding, 7and he treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: he will protect their way; 8that he may guard the righteous ways: and he will preserve the way of them that fear him. 9Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment; and shalt direct all thy course aright. 10For if wisdom shall come into thine understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to thy soul, 11good counsel shall guard thee, and holy understanding shall keep thee; 12to deliver thee from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully. 13Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness; 14who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; 15whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding; 16to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee, 17of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God. 18For she has fixed her house near death, and guided her wheels near Hades with the giants. 19None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life. 20For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy. 21For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it. 22The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.