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Thus he became rich beyond measure; many were the herds, the men-servants and maid-servants, the camels and asses that were his.✻ (Genesis 30, 43)
Meanwhile, Laban’s sons were complaining, Our father has been robbed of all his goods by Jacob, who has become rich at his expense. (Genesis 31, 1)
Jacob was aware of this; he found, too, that Laban looked on him more coldly than hitherto. (Genesis 31, 2)
But what moved him most was that the Lord had bidden him, Return to the land of thy fathers, to thy own kindred, and I will be with thee. (Genesis 31, 3)
So he sent word to Rachel and Lia to meet him on the pasture-ground where he was feeding his flocks, (Genesis 31, 4)
and said to them, I find that your father looks on me more coldly than hitherto; and all because the God of my father has prospered me. (Genesis 31, 5)
whereas he has defrauded me, altering, time and again, his bargain with me; it was only God’s mercy that prevented him doing me an injury. (Genesis 31, 7)
As it was, whenever he said, The speckled beasts shall be thy wages, it was to speckled lambs that all my ewes gave birth; when he changed about, and said, Thou shalt have all the white lambs for thy pay, all my flocks bore white. (Genesis 31, 8)
I had a dream at the time when my ewes were mating; as I looked round, I could see none but speckled and spotted and blotched rams coupling with the ewes. (Genesis 31, 10)
And in my dream, an angel of God called me by name, and when I answered, I am here, at thy command, (Genesis 31, 11)
he said, Look about thee, and mark well that all the sires coupling with the dams are speckled, spotted, or blotched; that is because I have taken good note of all Laban’s dealings with thee. (Genesis 31, 12)
I am the God who dwells at Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and didst take a vow to me. It is time for thee, now, to bestir thyself, to leave this country, and go back to the country of thy birth. (Genesis 31, 13)
