Genesis 31:1-12

Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob  has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this wealth.”

2  And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and indeed it was not favorable toward him as before.

3  Then the Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”

4  So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock,

5  And said to them, “I see your father’s countenance, that it is not favorable toward me as before; but the God on my father has been with me.

6  “And you know that with all my might I have served your father.

7  “Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.

8  “If he said thus: ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled.  And if he said thus: ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked.

9  “so God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

10  “And it happened, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted.

11  “Then the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying ‘Jacob.’  And I said, ‘Here I am.’

12 “And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.