Yet your father has deceived me and (A)changed my wages (B)ten times, but God (C)did not allow him to hurt me. If he said thus: (D)‘The speckled shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore speckled. And if he said thus: ‘The streaked shall be your wages,’ then all the flocks bore streaked. So God has (E)taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.

10 “And it happened, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted. 11 Then (F)the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Jacob.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’ 12 And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for (G)I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

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yet your father has cheated(A) me by changing my wages(B) ten times.(C) However, God has not allowed him to harm me.(D) If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then all the flocks gave birth to speckled young; and if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’(E) then all the flocks bore streaked young. So God has taken away your father’s livestock(F) and has given them to me.(G)

10 “In breeding season I once had a dream(H) in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted. 11 The angel of God(I) said to me in the dream,(J) ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’(K) 12 And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted,(L) for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.(M)

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