Bible Teaching Skit: A Bride for Isaac

This is a skit portraying the story of how Rebekah was found for Isaac and then them getting married as written in Genesis 24. It is written directly from the Bible, only putting in a few directorial cues, which are written in parenthesis. This skit can be performed as simply as having your students read the script in class, or as extravagant as having costumes and scenery.
Characters:
Narrator
Abraham
Servant
Rebekah
Laban
Rebekah’s mother (optional, non-speaking)
Props:
camels (pictures)
well (or a circle of chairs)
jar/bucket for water
bracelets/gold/rings/jewelry
veil
Narrator: Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in every way.
Abraham: (to his servant) Please place your hand under my thigh, and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live, but you will go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
Servant: Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land; should I take your son back to the land from where you came?
Abraham: Beware that you do not take my son back there! The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there. But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this my oath; only do not take my son back there.
Narrator: So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.
Servant: O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham. Behold, I am standing by the spring, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water; now may it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’-may she be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.
(enter Rebekah)
Narrator: Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder. The girl was very beautiful and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
Servant: (running to meet her) Please let me drink a little water from your jar.
Rebekah: Drink, my lord.
Narrator: She quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink.
Rebekah: I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking.
Narrator: So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels. Meanwhile, the man was gazing at her in silence, to know whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not. When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold.
Servant: Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father’s house?
Rebekah: I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor. We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in.
Narrator: Then the man bowed low and worshiped the Lord.
Servant: Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the Lord has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.
Narrator: Then the girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things. Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring. When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
Laban: Come in, blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?
Narrator: So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Servant: I will not eat until I have told my business.
Laban: Speak on.
Servant: I am Abraham’s servant. The Lord has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys. Now Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has. My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live; but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ So now if you are going to deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, let me know, that I may turn to the right hand or the left.
Laban: The matter comes from the Lord; so we cannot speak to you bad or good. Here is Rebekah before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has spoken.
Narrator: When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the Lord. The servant brought out articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother. Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they arose in the morning,
Servant: Send me away to my master.
Laban: Let the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.
Servant: Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.
Laban: We will call the girl and consult her wishes.
Laban: (to Rebekah) Will you go with this man?
Rebekah: I will go.
Narrator: Thus they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men. They blessed Rebekah.
Laban: May you, our sister, become thousands of ten thousands, and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them.
Narrator: Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.
Narrator: Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening; and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, camels were coming. Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from the camel.
Rebekah: (to the servant) Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?
Servant: He is my master.
Narrator: Then she took her veil and covered herself. The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife.
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Image courtesy of Sweet Publishing and Distant Shores Media
You can download our printable review game about couples in the Bible. Isaac and Rebekah are featured.