Genesis 31:1-13 ▼

1 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, |Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.|

2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and look, it was not as it had been.

3 Then God said to Jacob, |Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.|

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

5 and said to them, |I see the expression on your father’s face, that it is not what it was before. But the God of my father has been with me.

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

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

8 If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.

9 Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

10 And it came about at the time when the flocks were breeding I looked up and saw in a dream, and look, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'

12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and look, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a standing-stone, where you made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.'|