9. So God has taken the animals away from your father and has given them to me.
10. “I had a dream during the time when the animals were mating. I saw that the only male goats that were mating were the ones with stripes and spots.
11. The angel of God spoke to me in that dream. The angel said, ‘Jacob!’ “I answered, ‘Yes!’
12. “The angel said, ‘Look, only the striped and spotted goats are mating. I am causing this to happen. I have seen all the wrong things Laban has been doing to you. I am doing this so that you can have all the new baby goats.
13. I am the God who came to you at Bethel, and there you made an altar, poured olive oil on it, and made a promise to me. Now I want you to be ready to go back to the country where you were born.’”
14. Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, “Our father has nothing to give us when he dies.
15. He treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all the money that should have been ours.
16. God took all this wealth from our father, and now it belongs to us and our children. So you should do whatever God told you to do.”
17. So Jacob prepared for the trip. He put his children and his wives on camels.
18. Then they began traveling back to the land of Canaan, where his father lived. All the flocks of animals that Jacob owned walked ahead of them. He carried everything with him that he had gotten while he lived in Paddan Aram.
19. While Laban was gone to cut the wool from his sheep, Rachel went into his house and stole the false gods that belonged to her father.
20. Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean. He did not tell Laban he was leaving.