21. Afterwards she gave birth to a daughter and called her name Dinah.
22. Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
23. She conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
24. And she called his name Joseph, saying, “The Lord will add to me another son.”
25. When Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, so that I may go to my own place, to my country.
26. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go. For you know the service that I have given you.”
27. Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. For I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me on account of you.”
28. He said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”
29. Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.
30. For you had little before I came, and it is now increased to a multitude. The Lord has blessed you since I came, and now when may I also provide for my own house?”
31. Laban said, “What may I give you?”And Jacob said, “You may not give me anything, but if you will do this one thing for me, I will continue to feed and keep your flock.
32. I will pass through all your flock today, removing from it all the speckled and spotted sheep, and every brown sheep from among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. These shall be my wages.
33. So my integrity will answer for me in time to come. When you come to examine my wages, every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep that are with me will be considered stolen.”
34. Laban said, “Agreed. Let it be according to your word.”
35. He removed that day the male goats that were striped and spotted and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons.
36. He put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37. Then Jacob took rods of fresh-cut poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white which was in the rods.
38. He set the rods which he had peeled before the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink, so that they would mate when they came to drink.
39. The flocks mated before the rods and gave birth to young that were striped, speckled, and spotted.
40. Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face toward the striped and all the brown in the flock of Laban. He put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s sheep.
41. Whenever the stronger sheep mated, Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the sheep in the troughs, so that they might mate among the rods.