And Jacob told Rachel,.... Or "had told" i her; before he kissed her, and lift up his voice and wept, as Aben Ezra observes:
that he [was] her father's brother; his nephew by his sister, for such were sometimes called brethren, as Lot, Abraham's brother's son, is called his brother, Genesis 14:12:
and that he [was] Rebekah's son; sister to her father, and aunt to her, and whose name and relation she doubtless knew full well:
and she ran and told her father; leaving the care of her flock with Jacob; Rebekah, in a like case, ran and told her mother, Genesis 24:28, which is most usual for daughters to do; but here Rachel runs and tells her father, her mother very probably being dead, as say the Jewish writers k.
i ויגד "et puntiaverat", Pagninus, Montanus; "renuntiaverat", Vatablus. k Bereshit Rabba, sect. 70. fol. 62. 4. Jarchi in loc.