Genesis Chapter 24 verse 28 Holy Bible
And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.
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So the girl went running and took the news of these things to her mother's house
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And the maiden ran and told these things to her mother's house.
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And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.
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And the damsel ran, and told these things to her mother's house.
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The young lady ran, and told her mother's house about these words.
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And the young person runneth, and declareth to the house of her mother according to these words.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - And the damsel - הַגַּעַרָ (vide on ver. 16) - ran (leaving the venerable stranger in the act of devotion), and told them of her mother's house - a true touch of nature. With womanly instinct, discerning the possibility of a love-suit, she imparts the joyful intelligence neither to her brother nor to her father, but to her mother and the other females of the household, who lived separately from the men of the establishment - these things - in particular of the arrival of a messenger from Abraham. Perhaps also the nose-jewel would tell its own tale. CHAPTER 24:29-60
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) The damsel ran, and told (them of) her mother's house.--The words inserted in italics are worse than useless. The wife of a sheik has a separate tent (Genesis 24:67), and the result of polygamy is to make each family hold closely together. Naturally, too, the maiden would first show her mother and the women presents of so special a meaning. We even find Laban, the brother, acting as Rebekah's representative; and it is only when the final decision has to be given that Bethuel is allowed to have any voice in the matter (Genesis 24:50).
