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4He sent, and called Rachel and Lia into the field, where he fed the flocks,

    5And said to them: I see your father's countenance is not towards me as yesterday and the other day: but the God of my father hath been with me.

    6And you know that I have served your father to the utmost of my power.

    7Yea, your father also hath overreached me, and hath changes my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.

    8If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white ones for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.

    9And God hath taken your father's substance, and given it to me.

    10For after that time came of the ewes conceiving, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in my sleep that the males which leaped upon the females were of diverse colors, and spotted, and speckled.

    11And the angel of God said to me in my sleep: Jacob? And I answered: Here I am.

    12And he said: Lift up thy eyes, and see that all the males leaping upon the females, are of divers colors, spotted, and speckled. For I have seen all that Laban hath done to thee.

    13I am the God of Bethel, where thou didst anoint the stone, and make a vow to me. Now therefore arise, and go out of this land, and return into thy native country.

    14And Rachel and Lia answered: Have we anything left among the goods and inheritance of our father's house?

    15Hath he not counted us as strangers and sold us, and eaten up the price of us?

    16But God hath taken our father's riches, and delivered them to us, and to our children: wherefore do all that God hath commanded thee.

    17Then Jacob rose up, and having set his children and wives upon camels, went his way.

    18And he took all his substance, and flocks, and whatsoever he had gotten in Mesopotamia, and went forward to Isaac his father to the land of Chanaan.