text: Jacob is from 450 miles away. Where he comes from the sun may be higher at a different time than it is here. So perhaps he is being brash and cocky, and completely ignores the local customs and still is rushing headlong to do what he wants to do, despite what others think.
  13As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house.
  Note this phrase at the end of vs 13: “Jacob told Laban all these things,” but Jacob did not tell Laban the full reason why he left home — perhaps only that Laban’s sister, Rachael, wants him to obtain a wife from amongst their own people — of which Laban’s offspring are the only ones available.
  Laban warmly welcomes Jacob, and at dinner the dubious discussion (meaning it is not with complete openness and candor nor characterized by full disclosure) may have involved …