Genesis 29:12 - Exposition

And Jacob told (or, had told, ut supra ) Rachel that he was her father's brother, —as Lot is called Abraham's brother, though in reality his nephew ( Genesis 13:8 ; Genesis 14:14 , Genesis 14:16 )— and that he was Rebekah's son (this clause would explain the meaning of the term "brother in the former): and she ran and told her father . Like Rebekah, believing the stranger's words and running to report them, though, unlike Rebekah, first relating them to her father (cf. Genesis 14:1-24 :28).