(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

Israel said, “Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?”

My lord asked his servants, ‘Do you have a father or a brother?’

They replied, “The man questioned us thoroughly about ourselves and our family, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ So we answered him in this way. How could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”