²⁹ Jacob said to him, “You know how I have worked for you^(A) and how your livestock has fared under my care.^{(B) 30} The little you had before I came has increased greatly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I have been.^(C) But now, when may I do something for my own household?^(D)”

⁵ He said to them, “I see that your father’s^(A) attitude toward me is not what it was before,^(B) but the God of my father has been with me.^{(C) 6} You know that I’ve worked for your father with all my strength,^{(D) 7} yet your father has cheated^(E) me by changing my wages^(F) ten times.^(G) However, God has not allowed him to harm me.^{(H) 8} 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,’^(I) then all the flocks bore streaked young. ⁹ So God has taken away your father’s livestock^(J) and has given them to me.^(K)

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