Genesis 31:8-12 ▼

8 Whenever your father said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the entire flock would bear speckled young; whenever he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wages,’ the entire flock would bear streaked young.

9 So God took away your father’s livestock and gave it to me.

10 Once, during the flock’s mating season, I had a dream in which I saw he-goats mating that were streaked, speckled and mottled.

11 In the dream God’s angel said to me, ‘Jacob!’ and I replied, ‘Here I am!’

12 Then he said: ‘Look up and see. All the he-goats that are mating are streaked, speckled and mottled, for I have seen all the things that Laban has been doing to you.