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Isaac and Rebekah

“Lesson 12: Isaac and Rebekah,” Primary 6: Old Testament, (1996),47

To teach you that the same eternal blessings promised to Abraham, Isaac,

and Jacob can be yours if you make and honor temple marriage covenants.

Purpose

OUR OPENING PRAYER WILL BE GIVEN BY

(Enter name here)

Do you want to see something interesting?

• I’m going to show you how to make a large paper ring out of a piece of paper.

• To do this I must follow the directions exactly.

Do you want to see something interesting?

• See the ring I’ve cut?

• Now, I need a volunteer….

• … Stand and gently slip the paper ring over your head and I’ll help you guide it to the floor.

• How is eternal marriage like a ring?

– It has no end.

• What is required for a temple marriage to last forever and have no end?

–Both the husband and wife must obey Heavenly Father’s commandments and keep their covenants.

• In this lesson we will learn more about eternal marriage.

• Heavenly Father has provided a way for us to receive the same blessings that he promised Abraham.

• Let’s review the promises from Genesis 22:17–18.

• The Lord made the same covenants with Isaac and Jacob that he did with Abraham and he promises the same things to everyone who marries in the temple and keeps his or her temple covenants.

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• Why was Abraham concerned that Isaac not marry a Canaanite woman?

–Genesis 24:3–4

• Canaanites worshiped false gods. If Isaac married someone of another faith, he would marry outside the covenant.

• Abraham wanted Isaac to marry a woman who would help him remain faithful. Only in this way would the priesthood remain with Abraham’s descendants and would they receive the special blessings the Lord had promised to Abraham and his seed.

Enrichment Activity #1

Here are some of the Lord’s temples

Some of them are ancient

Some are latter-day

• San Diego, California Temple

Manhattan, New York Temple

Salt Lake City, Utah Temple


• There are many temples around the world and more are dedicated and built every year.


• Apia, Samoa Temple

Seoul, Korea Temple

Helsinki, Finland Temple


• Temples are an important part of Heavenly Father’s plan for us.

• By marrying in the temple you can qualify for all the blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

• Families whose parents were not married in the temple can still be sealed when they become worthy to receive the temple ordinances.



• Being in the temple gives a feeling of what the celestial kingdom is like. It is a beautiful and peaceful place to be.

• In a few years, you will be old enough enter the temple and perform baptisms for the dead.

• This is a wonderful experience that will help those who have died that are worthy obtain the blessings of exaltation.


• How would you feel if someone arranged a marriage for you to a person you didn’t know, as happened with Isaac and Rebekah?

• What kind of person would you trust to choose your marriage partner?

• What characteristics did the servant of Abraham have that showed he could be trusted to find the right wife for Isaac?

– See Genesis 24:12–14, 33, 48

• He prayed for help by asking the Lord to confirm his plan rather than solve his problem.

• He was more concerned about completing his assignment than he was for his own comfort.

• He expressed gratitude for the Lord’s help.

• In seeking the Lord’s help, how can you follow the example of the servant of Abraham?

• What did Rebekah’s willingness to water the servant’s camels show about the type of person she was?

– See Genesis 24:18–19

• What could you do to develop the qualities of being a hard worker, unselfish, and dependable?

• When you are given a hard task to do, what could you do to make the job more pleasant?

• How did Rebekah complete her difficult task?

– See Genesis 24:20

• Even though a camel can go for days without a drink of water, in the summer a camel may drink five gallons of water a day.

• Imagine how many trips Rebekah made to the well to fill her pitcher to draw water for ten camels to have enough to drink.


• Rebekah was willing to serve others.

• I’m going to give you a piece of paper with several pitchers on it.

• Write in each one something you would be willing to do to serve someone else.


• How did Rebekah’s father and brother respond to the request for Rebekah to marry Isaac?

– See Genesis 24:50–51

• How can the examples set by parents affect their children?

• What great quality did Rebekah demonstrate when she answered her family about going with the servant?


• She had faith in God

• Why do you think Rebekah was willing to marry a stranger from another land?

• Rebekah wanted to marry in the covenant and provide the blessings of Abraham for herself and her children.

• What did Rebekah’s family do before she left them?

–See Genesis 24:60

• How do you think a father’s blessing could help a person preparing for marriage?

• When should you start preparing for your eternal marriage?

• A latter-day prophet, Spencer W. Kimball, has said, “We recommend … that all boys and girls from their infancy up plan to be married only in the temple … to keep their lives spotless so that this can be accomplished” (“The Matter of Marriage”

[address delivered at the Salt Lake Institute of Religion, 22 Oct. 1976]).

• What are some things you might do to prepare for your eternal marriage?

• What can you do in your family right now to help your family be more celestial?

• What was one important thing that Isaac did to make his marriage happy?


• He loved his wife.

• How can you show more love for the members of your family?


Imagine that you are in heaven and your families are seated on these chairs and you are in the middle.

What would heaven be like if you looked around and found one of your family members missing?



“God intended the family to be eternal. With all my soul, I testify to the truth of that declaration. May He bless us to strengthen our homes and the lives of each family member so that in due time we can report to our Heavenly Father in His celestial home that we are all there—father, mother, sister, brother, all who hold each other dear. Each chair is filled. We are all back home” (The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson [1988], p. 493).


What ways can we follow President Benson’s counsel now and in the future?

Go home and discuss these ideas with your families and make a list of ideas that you can work on together.

• Let’s role-play the story of Rebekah and Isaac.

• I have some costume items in this bag.


• It is a sacred privilege to be permitted into the temple of the Lord.

• In order to enter the temple a recommend is required.


• Some of the things that are necessary for a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to do to receive a temple recommend are:

– Keep your body and mind clean and pure.

– Sustain the President of the Church as a prophet, seer, and revelator.

– Pay a full tithe.

– Live the Word of Wisdom.

– Be totally honest.

–Attend Church meetings and keep the commandments.

– Treat your family with kindness.


– I encourage all of you to set the goal now to be married in the temple so you can qualify for the blessings of Abraham and so you can make these blessings available to your children.


President Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth President of the Church said this:


“Having in mind the importance of temple work, wouldn’t it be wonderful if every Latter-day Saint home had in the bedroom of each boy and each girl, or on the mantel of the living room, a fairly good-sized picture of a temple which would help them recall, frequently, the purpose of these beautiful edifices. I believe there would be far more marriages in the temple than there are today, because the children would have as a part of their growing experience the picture of one of our temples constantly before them as a reminder and a goal. I recommend that to the Saints” (“The Things of Eternity—Stand We in Jeopardy?”

Ensign, Jan. 1977, p. 7).

I love to see the temple. I’m going there someday To feel the Holy Spirit, To listen and to pray. For the temple is a house of God, A place of love and beauty. I’ll prepare myself while I am young; This is my sacred duty.


I love to see the temple. I’ll go inside someday. I’ll cov’nant with my Father; I’ll promise to obey. For the temple is a holy place Where we are sealed together. As a child of God, I’ve learned this truth: A fam’ly is forever.

Words and music: Janice Kapp Perry, b. 1938 © 1980 by Janice Kapp Perry. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use.

I bear my testimony of the great blessings of temple marriage. I am grateful for the love that Heavenly Father has for each of us. I encourage you to develop the good qualities that will enable you to be part of an eternal family.

OUR CLOSING PRAYER WILL BE GIVEN BY

(Enter Name Here)

THE END

• The temple under construction on slide 18 is in Kyiv, Ukraine. The sealing room on slide 20 and Celestial room on slide are in the Draper, Utah temple. The baptismal font on slide 22 is in the Oquirrh Mountain, Utah temple. The temple in the background on slide 42 is in Salt Lake City, Utah.

• The Narration of Issac and Rebekah was by Sr. Jan Hill from the Sycamore Illinois ward, Rockford Stake.

Images and clipart are from lds.org, Salt Lake Tribune, Sugardoodle.net and other websites indicating the images were in the public domain or permitted for church and home use. No copyrighted materials were knowing used in this Presentation. The hymns, Lesson and Scripture story are from lds.org. Please do not use this presentation for commercial use. Feel free to alter the presentation for use in church or home to suit personal preference. This presentation is intended to supplement, not replace, the lesson manual and scriptures. Teachers should refer to the manual, scriptures and other resources when preparing and conducting the lesson.

• Abraham wanted his son Isaac to marry a woman who would be worthy to receive the blessings that the Lord had promised to Abraham and his children.

He asked his servant to go back to Abraham’s land of birth and find a worthy wife for Isaac.

The servant prayed that the Lord would show him which woman Isaac should have for a wife by having the woman give him a drink of water and offer to draw water from the well for his animals.

• As he waited at the well, a beautiful young woman named Rebekah offered to get water for him and his animals to drink.

• The servant then knew this was the woman the Lord wanted him to take back to be Isaac’s wife.

When Rebekah told him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor,” the servant “bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord” (Genesis 24:23–24, 26).

• After Rebekah had finished drawing water for all the camels, the servant asked her, “Whose daughter art thou?”

• The servant knew that “the Lord God … had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s [grand]daughter unto his son” (Genesis 24:48).

• Rebekah took the servant to her home, where he immediately stated his errand. Her father and her brother, Laban, knowing that “the thing proceedeth from the Lord,” agreed to the marriage. “And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go” (Genesis 24:50, 58).

• Before she left her home, her father and brother “blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions” (Genesis 24:60).

• “Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. … And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her” (Genesis 24:64, 67).

As the servant and Rebekah were nearing the end of their journey, Rebekah put on a veil as a sign of her virtue, modesty, respect, and readiness for a covenant marriage.

Genesis 22:17–18

• 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

• 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Genesis 24:3–4

• 3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

• 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

Genesis 24:12–14, 33, 48

• 12 And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

• 13 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

Genesis 24:12–14, 33, 48

• 14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

Genesis 24:12–14, 33, 48

• 33 And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

• 48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter unto his son.

Genesis 24:18–19

• 18 And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

• 19 And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

Genesis 24:20

• 20 And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.

Genesis 24:50–51

• 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

• 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master’s son’s wife, as the Lord hath spoken.

Genesis 24:58

• 58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

Genesis 24:60

• 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Genesis 24:67

• 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

• Abraham wanted his son Isaac to marry a woman who would be worthy to receive the blessings that the Lord had promised to Abraham and his children.

He asked his servant to go back to Abraham’s land of birth and find a worthy wife for Isaac.

The servant prayed that the Lord would show him which woman Isaac should have for a wife by having the woman give him a drink of water and offer to draw water from the well for his animals.

• As he waited at the well, a beautiful young woman named Rebekah offered to get water for him and his animals to drink.

• The servant then knew this was the woman the Lord wanted him to take back to be Isaac’s wife.

When Rebekah told him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor,” the servant “bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord” (Genesis 24:23–24, 26).

• After Rebekah had finished drawing water for all the camels, the servant asked her, “Whose daughter art thou?”

• The servant knew that “the Lord God … had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s [grand]daughter unto his son” (Genesis 24:48).

• Rebekah took the servant to her home, where he immediately stated his errand. Her father and her brother, Laban, knowing that “the thing proceedeth from the Lord,” agreed to the marriage. “And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go” (Genesis 24:50, 58).

• Before she left her home, her father and brother “blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions” (Genesis 24:60).

• “Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. … And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her” (Genesis 24:64, 67).

As the servant and Rebekah were nearing the end of their journey, Rebekah put on a veil as a sign of her virtue, modesty, respect, and readiness for a covenant marriage.

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