3. One day the Lord said, “Jacob, go back to your relatives in the land of your ancestors, and I will bless you.”
4. Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his sheep,
5. and he told them:Your father isn't as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God my ancestors worshipped has been on my side.
6. You know that I have worked hard for your father
7. and that he keeps cheating me by changing my wages time after time. But God has protected me.
8. When your father said the speckled sheep would be my wages, all of them were speckled. And when he said the spotted ones would be mine, all of them were spotted.
9. That's how God has taken sheep and goats from your father and given them to me.
10. Once, when the flocks were mating, I dreamed that all the rams were either spotted or speckled.
11. Then God's angel called me by name. I answered,
12. and he said, “Notice that all the rams are either spotted or speckled. I know everything Laban is doing to you,
13. and I am the God you worshipped at Bethel, when you poured olive oil on a rock and made a promise to me. Leave here straight away and return to the land where you were born.”
14. Rachel and Leah said to Jacob:There's nothing left for us to inherit from our father.
15. He treats us like foreigners and has even cheated us out of the bride price that should have been ours.
16. Now do whatever God tells you to do. Even the property God took from our father and gave to you really belongs to us and our children.
17. Then Jacob, his wives, and his children got on camels and left
18. for the home of his father Isaac in Canaan. Jacob took all the flocks, herds, and other property that he had got in northern Syria.