²⁹ Jacob replied: “You know what work I did for you and how well your livestock fared under my care; ³⁰ the little you had before I came has grown into an abundance, since the Lord has blessed you in my company. Now, when can I do something for my own household as well?”

⁵ There he said to them: “I have noticed that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was in the past; but the God of my father has been with me. ⁶ You know well that with all my strength I served your father; ⁷ yet your father cheated me and changed my wages ten times. God, however, did not let him do me any harm.^{(A) 8} Whenever your father said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the entire flock would bear speckled young; whenever he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wages,’ the entire flock would bear streaked young. ⁹ So God took away your father’s livestock and gave it to me. ¹⁰ Once, during the flock’s mating season, I had a dream in which I saw he-goats mating that were streaked, speckled and mottled. ¹¹ In the dream God’s angel said to me, ‘Jacob!’ and I replied, ‘Here I am!’ ¹² Then he said: ‘Look up and see. All the he-goats that are mating are streaked, speckled and mottled, for I have seen all the things that Laban has been doing to you.