Genesis 31:1-13

1Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken away everything that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he has acquired all this wealth and honor.”

2Jacob noticed [a change in] the attitude of Laban, and saw that it was not friendly toward him as before.

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

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

5and he said to them, “I see [a change in] your father’s attitude, that he is not friendly toward me as [he was] before; but the God of my father [Isaac] has been with me.

6You know that I have served your father with all my strength.

7Yet your father has cheated me [as often as possible] and changed my wages ten times; but God did not allow him to hurt me.

8If he said, ‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled [young]; and if he said, ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked [young].

9Thus God has taken away the flocks of your father and given them to me.

10And it happened at the time when the flock conceived that I looked up and saw in a dream that the rams which mated [with the female goats] were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

11And the Angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’

12He said, ‘Look up and see, all the rams which are mating [with the flock] are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, and where you made a vow to Me; now stand up, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’ ”