³⁹ the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

³⁵ The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had ^(A)asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. ^36 (B)And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that ^(C)they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

^42 (A)If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the ^(B)Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. ^(C)God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and ^(D)rebuked you last night.”

⁴⁰ There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

³⁸ These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.

⁹ Thus God has ^(A)taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me. ¹⁰ In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled. ¹¹ Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’ ¹² And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for ^(B)I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.