1. Now Jacob heard the words Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything that belongs to our father, and from what belongs to our father he has made all these riches.”
2. Then Jacob saw Laban’s face, and he noticed that his expression wasn’t the same as it was just a day or two before.
3. Then Adonai said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”
4. So Jacob sent and called for Rachel and Leah to come to the field, to his flock.
5. He said to them, “I can see by your father’s face that his expression isn’t the same as it was just a day or two ago. But the God of my father has been with me.
6. Now you yourselves know that I’ve served your father with all my strength.
7. Yet your father has fooled around with me and has changed my salary ten times—but God hasn’t allowed him to harm me.
8. If he would say, ‘the spotted ones will be your salary,’ then the flocks would give birth to spotted ones. Or if he would say, ‘the striped ones will be your salary,’ then all the flocks would give birth to striped ones.