Genesis 24:28
Good News Translation
The young woman ran to her mother's house and told the whole story.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

Contemporary English Version
Rebekah ran straight home and told her family everything.

New American Bible
Then the young woman ran off and told her mother’s household what had happened.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she had heard.

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Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she had heard.

of.

Genesis 24:48,55,67 And falling down, I adored the Lord, blessing the Lord God of my master, Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son. . . .

Genesis 31:33 So Laban went into the tent of Jacob, and of Lia, and of both the handmaids, and found them not. And when he was entered into Rachel's tent,

her mother's.

50,) was a younger brother. This is possible; but as Dr. A. Clarke remarks, the mother's house might be mentioned were even the father alive; for in Asiatic countries, the women have apartments entirely separate from those of the men, in which their little children and grown-up daughters reside with them. This was probably the case here; though, from the whole narrative, it is very probable that Bethuel was dead, as the whole business appears to be conducted by Rebekah's brothers.

Context
Rebekah is Chosen
27Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother. 28Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she had heard.29And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.…
Cross References
Genesis 29:12
And he told her that he was her father's brother, and the son of Rebecca: but she went in haste and told her father.

Genesis 24:29
And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.

Genesis 24:27
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