1. Jacob heard that Laban's sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father. All his wealth has come from what our father owned.”
2. He also saw that Laban was no longer as friendly as he had been earlier.
3. Then the Lord said to him, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”
4. So Jacob sent word to Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where his flocks were.
5. He said to them, “I have noticed that your father is not as friendly towards me as he used to be; but my father's God has been with me.
6. You both know that I have worked for your father with all my strength.
7. Yet he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.
8. Whenever Laban said, ‘The speckled goats shall be your wages,’ all the flocks produced speckled young. When he said, ‘The striped goats shall be your wages,’ all the flocks produced striped young.