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New Living Translation (NLT)

Genesis 31
⁵ He said to them, “I have noticed that your father’s attitude toward me has changed. But the God of my father has been with me.
⁶ You know how hard I have worked for your father,
⁷ but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm.
⁸ For if he said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the whole flock began to produce speckled young. And when he changed his mind and said, ‘The striped animals will be your wages,’ then the whole flock produced striped young.
⁹ In this way, God has taken your father’s animals and given them to me.
¹⁰ “One time during the mating season, I had a dream and saw that the male goats mating with the females were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
¹¹ Then in my dream, the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Yes, here I am.’
¹² “The angel said, ‘Look up, and you will see that only the streaked, speckled, and spotted males are mating with the females of your flock. For I have seen how Laban has treated you.
¹³ I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.’”
¹⁴ Rachel and Leah responded, “That’s fine with us! We won’t inherit any of our father’s wealth anyway.
¹⁵ He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. And after he sold us, he wasted the money you paid him for us.