1. JACOB HEARD Laban's sons complaining, Jacob has taken away all that was our father's; he has acquired all this wealth and honor from what belonged to our father.
2. And Jacob noticed that Laban looked at him less favorably than before.
3. Then the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers and to your people, and I will be with you.
4. So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
5. And he said to them, I see how your father looks at me, that he is not [friendly] toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
6. You know that I have served your father with all my might and power.
7. But your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God did not allow him to hurt me.
8. If he said, The speckled shall be your wages, then all the flock bore speckled; and if he said, The streaked shall be your hire, then all the flock bore streaked.
9. Thus God has taken away the flocks of your father and given them to me.
10. And I had a dream at the time the flock conceived. I looked up and saw that the rams which mated with the she-goats were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
11. And the Angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob. And I said, Here am I.
12. And He said, Look up and see, all the rams which mate with the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
13. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, get out from this land and return to your native land.
14. And Rachel and Leah answered him, Is there any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?