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Genesis 30:20-32 New International Version (NIV)

20. Then Leah said, “God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.

21. Some time later she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

22. Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.

23. She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, “God has taken away my disgrace.”

24. She named him Joseph, and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.”

25. After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.

26. Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”

27. But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”

28. He added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”

29. Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you and how your livestock has fared under my care.

30. The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when may I do something for my own household?”

31. “What shall I give you?” he asked. “Don’t give me anything,” Jacob replied. “But if you will do this one thing for me, I will go on tending your flocks and watching over them:

32. Let me go through all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb and every spotted or speckled goat. They will be my wages.

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