6. You know that with all my strength I have served your father.
7. Your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
8. If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then all the flock produced speckled. If he said, ‘The striped will be your pay,’ then all the flock produced striped.
9. In this way God has taken away your father’s flock and given them to me.
10. “When the livestock conceived, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were striped, speckled, and spotted.