3. The Lord said to Jacob, “Go back to the land where your ancestors lived, and I will be with you.”
4. So Jacob told Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his flocks.
5. He said to them, “I have seen that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God of my father has been with me.
6. You both know that I have worked as hard as I could for your father,
7. but he cheated me and changed my pay ten times. But God has not allowed your father to harm me.
8. When Laban said, ‘You can have all the speckled animals as your pay,’ all the animals gave birth to speckled young ones. But when he said, ‘You can have all the streaked animals as your pay,’ all the flocks gave birth to streaked babies.
9. So God has taken the animals away from your father and has given them to me.
10. “I had a dream during the season when the flocks were mating. I saw that the only male goats who were mating were streaked, speckled, or spotted.
11. The angel of God spoke to me in that dream and said, ‘Jacob!’ I answered, ‘Yes!’
12. The angel said, ‘Look! Only the streaked, speckled, or spotted male goats are mating. I have seen all the wrong things Laban has been doing to you.
13. I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, where you poured olive oil on the stone you set up on end and where you made a promise to me. Now I want you to leave here and go back to the land where you were born.’ ”