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Genesis 31:6-20 Amplified Bible (AMP)

6. You know that I have served your father with all my might and power.

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

8. If he said, The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said, The streaked shall be your hire, then all the flock bore streaked.

9. Thus God has taken away the flocks of your father and given them to me.

10. And I had a dream at the time the flock conceived. I looked up and saw that the rams which mated with the she-goats were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

11. And the Angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob. And I said, Here am I.

12. And He said, Look up and see, all the rams which mate with the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

13. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, get out from this land and return to your native land.

14. And Rachel and Leah answered him, Is there any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

15. Are we not counted by him as strangers? For he sold us and has also quite devoured our money [the price you paid for us].

16. For all the riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do it.

17. Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;

18. And he drove away all his livestock and all his gain which he had gotten, the livestock he had obtained and accumulated in Padan-aram, to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

19. Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep [possibly to the feast of sheepshearing], and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

20. And Jacob outwitted Laban the Syrian [Aramean] in that he did not tell him that he [intended] to flee and slip away secretly.

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