30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks
toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he
put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive,
that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters,
that they might conceive among the rods.
30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the
feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and
maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.
31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken
away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath
he gotten all this glory.
31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not
toward him as before.
31:3 And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers,
and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his
flock,
31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not
toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
31:7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times;
but God suffered him not to hurt me.
31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the
cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy
hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them
to me.
31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I
lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which
leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And
I said, Here am I.
31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which
leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have
seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
31:13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and
where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this
land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any
portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
31:15 Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath
quite devoured also our money.
31:16 For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is
ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee,
do.
31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
31:18 And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had
gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for
to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
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