³⁹ they mated in front of the branches.^(A) And they bore young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.^(B)

³⁵ The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold^(A) and for clothing.^{(B) 36} The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed^(C) toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered^(D) the Egyptians.

⁴² If the God of my father,^(A) the God of Abraham^(B) and the Fear of Isaac,^(C) had not been with me,^(D) you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands,^(E) and last night he rebuked you.^(F)”

⁴⁰ This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.^(A)

³⁸ “I have been with you for twenty years now.^(A) Your sheep and goats have not miscarried,^(B) nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

⁹ So God has taken away your father’s livestock^(A) and has given them to me.^(B)

¹⁰ “In breeding season I once had a dream^(C) 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^(D) said to me in the dream,^(E) ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’^{(F) 12} And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted,^(G) for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.^(H)