23. And [now for the first time] she became pregnant and bore a son; and she said, God has taken away my reproach, disgrace, and humiliation.
24. And she called his name Joseph [may he add] and said, May the Lord add to me another son.
25. When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and country.
26. Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the work which I have done for you.
27. And Laban said to him, If I have found favor in your sight, I pray you [do not go]; for I have learned by experience and from the omens in divination that the Lord has favored me with blessings on your account.
28. He said, State your salary and I will give it.
29. Jacob answered him, You know how I have served you, and how your possessions, your cattle and sheep and goats, have fared with me.
30. For you had little before I came, and it has increased and multiplied abundantly; and the Lord has favored you with blessings wherever I turned. But now, when shall I provide for my own house also?
31. [Laban] said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me anything, if you will do this one thing for me [of which I am about to tell you], and I will again feed and take care of your flock.
32. Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted animal and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.