Genesis 31:6-16

6 You know how hard I've worked for your father.
7 Still, your father has cheated me over and over, changing my wages time and again. But God never let him really hurt me.
8 If he said, 'Your wages will consist of speckled animals' the whole flock would start having speckled lambs and kids. And if he said, 'From now on your wages will be streaked animals' the whole flock would have streaked ones.
9 Over and over God used your father's livestock to reward me.
10 "Once, while the flocks were mating, I had a dream and saw the billy goats, all of them streaked, speckled, and mottled, mounting their mates.
11 In the dream an angel of God called out to me, 'Jacob!' "I said, 'Yes?'
12 "He said, 'Watch closely. Notice that all the goats in the flock that are mating are streaked, speckled, and mottled. I know what Laban's been doing to you.
13 I'm the God of Bethel where you consecrated a pillar and made a vow to me. Now be on your way, get out of this place, go home to your birthplace.'"
14 Rachel and Leah said, "Has he treated us any better?
15 Aren't we treated worse than outsiders? All he wanted was the money he got from selling us, and he's spent all that.
16 Any wealth that God has seen fit to return to us from our father is justly ours and our children's. Go ahead. Do what God told you."
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