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Genesis 30:25-32 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

25. And it happened that as soon as Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away that I may go to my place and my land.

26. Give me my wives and my children for which I have served you, and let me go. For you yourself know my service that I have rendered to you.”

27. But Laban said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, I have learned by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you.”

28. And he said, “Name your wage to me and I will give it.”

29. Then he said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have been with me.

30. For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?”

31. And he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “Do not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flocks and keep them.

32. Let me pass through all your flocks today, removing all the speckled and spotted sheep from them, along with every dark-colored sheep among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. That shall be my wages.

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