Genesis 31:1-8

1Now 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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

8If 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.