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== Name ==
In Hebrew the book is |בְּרֵאשִׁית (''Bereishit''), meaning "in the beginning." This title is the first word of the Hebrew text - a method by which all five books of the Torah are named. When the Torah was translated into Greek in the 3rd century BC to produce the [[Septuagint]], the name given was Γένεσις ''Genesis'', meaning "birth" or "origin". This was in line with the Septuagint use of subject themes as book names. The Greek title has continued to be used in all subsequent Latin and English versions of the Bible, and most other languages.
removing the Jewish undertone - the Orthodox Genesis is not the Pentateuch.
{{OldTestament}}
The '''Book of Genesis''' contains is the pre-history of the people first book of Israel. It starts the first part the [[Old Testament]] section and contains extremely old oral and written traditions of the [[Bible]] called the [[Pentateuch]], Torah, or Books people of [[Moses]]Israel. The name ''Genesis'' comes from the Greek for birth and in Hebrew ''Bereishit'' which means "in the beginning"<ref>In Hebrew the book is |בְּרֵאשִׁית (''Bereishit''), origin, or birth because meaning "in the beginning." This title is the first word of the Hebrew text - a method by which all five books of the Torah are named. When the Torah was translated into Greek in the 3rd century BC to produce the [[Septuagint]], the name given was Γένεσις ''Genesis's division ', meaning "birth" or "origin". This was in line with the Septuagint use of subject themes as book names. The Greek title has continued to be used in all subsequent Latin and English versions of the Pentateuch into five booksBible, and most other languages.</ref>. Tradition has it that the Genesis was mostly written by the [[Prophet]] Moses 1,300 years before [[Christ]].
[[image:Viennagenesis.jpg|right|thumb|A page of the Vienna Genesis, made in sixth century Syria, with an illustration of Jacob/Israel blessing his grandsons Ephraim and Mannasseh.]]
== Background ==
At [[Vespers]] before the [[Nativity of the Theotokos]], the reading is from [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201;&version=9;|Genesis 28:10-17], the story of Jacob's vision of a ladder which unites heaven and earth. This passage indicates the union of God with men which is realized most fully and perfectly, both spiritually and physically, in Mary the Theotokos, Bearer of God.
== References ==
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==See also==
