6. Now you yourselves know that I have served your father with all my strength,
7. and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me.
8. If thus he said, ‘Speckled shall be your wage,’ then all the flock bore speckled. And if he said, ‘Streaked shall be your wage,’ then all the flock bore streaked.
9. God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
10. Now it happened that at the time of the mating of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and dappled.
11. Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
12. And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see—all the rams mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and dappled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
13. I am the God of Bethel where you anointed a stone pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now get up, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.’ ”
14. Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father?
15. Are we not regarded as foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money?
16. For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do.”
17. Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on the camels.
18. And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
19. Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father.
20. And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee.
21. Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.
22. And on the third day it was told to Laban that Jacob had fled.
23. Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.
24. And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Take care that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil.”
25. And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his kinsmen pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead.
26. Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done that you tricked me and have carried off my daughters like captives of the sword?