Catholic Public Domain Version

Genesis 31:4-15 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

4. He sent and called for Rachel and Leah, in the field where he pastured the flocks,

5. and he said to them: "I see that your father's face is not the same toward me as it was yesterday and the day before. But the God of my father has been with me.

6. And you know that I have served your father with all my strength.

7. Even so, your father has circumvented me, and he has changed my wages ten times. And yet God has not permitted him to harm me.

8. Whenever he said, 'The speckled will be your wages,' all the sheep gave birth to speckled newborns. Yet truly, when he said the contrary, 'You will take whatever is white for your wages,' all the flocks gave birth to white ones.

9. And it is God who has taken your father's substance and given it to me.

10. For after the time had arrived for the ewes to conceive, I lifted up my eyes, and I saw in my sleep that the males climbing on the females were of variegated, and spotted, and diverse colors.

11. And the Angel of God said to me in my sleep, 'Jacob.' And I responded, 'Here I am.'

12. And he said: 'Lift up your eyes, and see that all the males climbing on the females are variegated, spotted, and also speckled. For I have seen all that Laban has done to you.

13. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the stone and made a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and depart from this land, returning to the land of your nativity.' "

14. And Rachel and Leah responded: "Have we anything left behind among the resources and inheritance of our father's house?

15. Has he not considered us as foreigners, and sold us, and consumed our price?