Season after Pentecost
Saturday in Season after Pentecost
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Semicontinuous (Track 1)
FIRST READING
Genesis 24:10-52
Verse 10. Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all manner of good things from his master in hand. And he set out for Nahor’s hometown in Aram-naharaim. Verse 11. As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water. Verse 12. “O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. Verse 13. Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. Verse 14. Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’— let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.” Verse 15. Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor. Verse 16. Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again. Verse 17. So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.” Verse 18. “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink. Verse 19. After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.” Verse 20. And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels. Verse 21. Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success. Verse 22. And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels. Verse 23. “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?” Verse 24. She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.” Verse 25. Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.” Verse 26. Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD, Verse 27. saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.” Verse 28. The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things. Verse 29. Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring. Verse 30. As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring. Verse 31. “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.” Verse 32. So the man came to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and feed were brought to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of his companions. Verse 33. Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.” Verse 34. “I am Abraham’s servant,” he replied. Verse 35. “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys. Verse 36. My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns. Verse 37. My master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell, Verse 38. but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’ Verse 39. Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’ Verse 40. And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house. Verse 41. And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’ Verse 42. So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success! Verse 43. Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’ Verse 44. and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son. Verse 45. And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’ Verse 46. She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels. Verse 47. Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists. Verse 48. Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son. Verse 49. Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.” Verse 50. Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter. Verse 51. Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.” Verse 52. When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
PSALM
Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19
Complementary (Track 2)
FIRST READING
Exodus 6:28-7:13
Text not available in the Berean Standard Bible.
PSALM
Psalm 100
SECOND READING
Mark 7:1-13
Verse 1. Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, Verse 2. and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled— that is, unwashed. Verse 3. Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially. Verse 4. And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining. Verse 5. So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.” Verse 6. Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Verse 7. They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ Verse 8. You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men. ” Verse 9. He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition. Verse 10. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ Verse 11. But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God ), Verse 12. he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother. Verse 13. Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”