3Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
5and said to them, "I see the expression on your father`s face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
6You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.
7Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn`t allow him to hurt me.
8If he said this, `The speckled will be your wages,` then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, `The streaked will be your wages,` then all the flock bore streaked.
9Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.