Genesis 31:1-13 ▼

1 And he hears the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken all that our father has; indeed, from that which our father has, he has made all this glory”;

2 and Jacob sees the face of Laban, and behold, it is not with him as before.

3 And YHWH says to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your family, and I am with you.”

4 And Jacob sends and calls for Rachel and for Leah to the field to his flock;

5 and says to them, “I am beholding your father’s face—that it is not toward me as before, and the God of my father has been with me,

6 and you have known that with all my power I have served your father,

7 and your father has played on me, and has changed my hire ten times; and God has not permitted him to do evil with me.

8 If he says thus: The speckled are your hire, then all the flock bore speckled ones; and if he says thus: The striped are your hire, then all the flock bore striped;

9 and God takes away the substance of your father, and gives to me.

10 And it comes to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up my eyes and see in a dream, and behold, the male goats, which are going up on the flock, [are] striped, speckled, and spotted;

11 and the Messenger of God says to me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here I [am].

12 And He says, Now lift up your eyes and see [that] all the male goats which are going up on the flock [are] striped, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you;

13 I [am] the God of Bethel where you have anointed a standing pillar, where you have vowed a vow to me; now, arise, go out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.”