He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father. The identification of himself as Rebekah's son — Laban's sister's child — is Jacob's credential in this household. The connection to Rebekah opens every door that the connection to Abraham opened for the servant in Genesis 24. Rachel runs to tell her father — the same running energy of her future husband's energy in verse 10. The application: the connections that matter in covenant relationships are the family connections built across generations. Jacob identifies himself by his mother, not his father.

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