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Old Testament / First Reading

A Reading from the book of Genesis 1:26-28, 31a

Then God said,
"Let us make humankind in our image,
according to our likeness;
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the birds of the air,
and over the cattle,
and over all the wild animals of the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.

God blessed them, and God said to them,
"Be fruitful and multiply,
and fill the earth and subdue it;
and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

God saw everything that he had made,
and indeed, it was very good.

This is the word of the Lord

A Reading from the book of Genesis 2: 18-24

Then the Lord God said,
"It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a helper as his partner."
So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air,
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them;
and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
The man gave names to all cattle,
and to the birds of the air,
and to every animal of the field;
but for the man there was not found a helper as his partner.

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept;
then he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.
And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Then the man said,
"This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of Man this one was taken."
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife,
and they become one flesh.

This is the word of the Lord

A Reading from the book of Genesis 24: 48-51, 58-69

Then I bowed my head and worshipped the Lord,
and blessed the Lord,
the God of my master Abraham,
who had led me by the right way to obtain the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.
Now then, if you will deal loyally and truly with my master,
tell me;
and if not, tell me,
so that I may turn either to the right hand or to the left."

Then Laban and Bethuel answered,
"The thing comes from the LORD;
we cannot speak to you anything bad or good.
Look, Rebekah is before you,
take her and go,
and let her be the wife of your master's son,
as the Lord has spoken."…
And they called Rebekah, and said to her,
"Will you go with this man?"
She said, "I will."
So they sent away their sister Rebekah and her nurse along with Abraham's servant and his men.
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,
"May you, our sister, become thousands of myriads;
may your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes."

Then Rebekah and her maids rose up,
mounted the camels, and followed the man;
thus the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, and was settled in the Negeb.
Isaac went out in the evening to walk in the field;
and looking up, he saw camels coming.
And Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac,
she slipped quickly from the camel, and said to the servant,
"Who is the man over there, walking in the field to meet us?"
The servant said, "It is my master."
So she took her veil and covered herself.
And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent.
He took Rebekah, and she became his wife;
and he loved her.
So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

This is the word of the Lord

A Reading from the Book of Ruth 1:16-17

But Ruth said,
"Do not press me to leave you
or to turn back from following you!
Where you go, I will go;
Where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people,
and your God my God.

Where you die, I will die
--there will I be buried.
May the Lord do thus and so to me,
and more as well, if even death parts me from you!"

This is the word of the Lord

A Reading from the Song of Songs 2:8-10, 14, 16 8:6-7

The voice of my beloved! Look, he comes, leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice. My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies…. Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned.

This is the word of the Lord 

A Reading from the Song of Songs 2:10-14, 16

My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely…" My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

This is the word of the Lord

A Reading from the Prophet Isaiah 61: 10-11

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
my whole being shall exult in my God;
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

For as the earth brings forth its shoots,
and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

This is the word of the Lord

A Reading from the Prophet Jeremiah 31:31-34

The days are surely coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt
--a covenant that they broke,
though I was their husband, says the Lord.

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my law within them,
and I will write it on their hearts;
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.

No longer shall they teach one another,
or say to each other,
"Know the Lord,"
for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,
says the Lord;
for I will forgive their iniquity,
and remember their sin no more.

This is the word of the Lord