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.

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.