22. Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.
23. She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”
24. And she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”
25. As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.
26. Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”
27. But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
28. Name your wages, and I will give it.”
29. Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.
30. For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”
31. He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:
32. let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.
33. So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”
34. Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”
35. But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons.
36. And he set a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban’s flock.
37. Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.