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.