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Genesis 30:25-31:21

30:25And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country. 30:26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. 30:27And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake. 30:28And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it. 30:29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me. 30:30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also? 30:31And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock. 30:32I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire. 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me. 30:34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word. 30:35And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 30:36And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks. 30:37And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. 30:38And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted. 30:40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. 30:41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 30:42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 30:43And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.

31:1And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.31:2And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.31:3And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.31:4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,31:5And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.31:6And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.31:7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.31:8If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstreaked.31:9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.31:10And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstreaked, speckled, and grisled.31:11And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.31:12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstreaked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.31:13I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.31:14And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?31:15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.31:16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.31:17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;31:18And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.31:19And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.31:20And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.31:21So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.