Genesis 30:25–43

²⁵And it came to pass when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my country. ²⁶Give me my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee. ²⁷And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes—I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me for thy sake. ²⁸And he said, Appoint to me thy wages, and I will give it. ²⁹And he said to him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and what thy cattle has become with me. ³⁰For it was little that thou hadst before me, and it is increased to a multitude, and Jehovah has blessed thee from the time I came; and now, when shall I also provide for my house? ³¹And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything. If thou doest this for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock: ³²I will pass through all thy flock to-day, to remove thence all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and that shall be my hire. ³³And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire, before thy face: all that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, let that be stolen with me. ³⁴And Laban said, Well, let it be according to thy word. ³⁵And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the brown among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. ³⁶And he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flock.

³⁷And Jacob took fresh rods of white poplar, almond-tree, and maple; and peeled off white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods. ³⁸And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock, in the troughs at the watering-places where the flock came to drink, and they were ardent when they came to drink. ³⁹And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. ⁴⁰And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks, and did not put them with Laban’s flock. ⁴¹And it came to pass whensoever the strong cattle were ardent, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might become ardent among the rods; ⁴²but when the sheep were feeble, he put them not in; so the feeble were Laban’s, and the strong Jacob’s. ⁴³And the man increased very, very much, and had much cattle, and bondwomen, and bondmen, and camels, and asses.