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.