GENESIS, CHAPTER 24
The story of Isaac and Rebekah is unusually valuable for dramatization. It involves a well-worked-out plot which is beautifully and simply told in the Bible, and which brings the children in contact with many interesting customs among the shepherd people. The story needs little changing; it may be given almost as it is written.
The following outline for the divisions of the story is merely suggestive:
Act I
SCENE I
Place: Abraham's tent in Canaan.
Abraham is lying down in his tent. He is talking to Isaac, his son, about the wife he wishes him to have. He calls a servant and bids him go to Mesopotamia, his old home, and bring a wife for Isaac from his own kinsfolk. Abraham makes the servant swear that he will do as he has been told. Perhaps Abraham has his hand on Isaac while he is talking, and Isaac will take some small part in the conversation.