2. When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.
3. The Lord said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”
4. So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.
5. There he said to them, “I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
6. You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,
7. but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
8. If he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.
9. In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
10. “Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
11. In the dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ ‘Here I am!’ I replied.
12. Then he said, ‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.
13. I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the sacred stone and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to your native land.’”
14. Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?