6. You know well that with all my strength I served your father;
7. yet your father cheated me and changed my wages ten times. God, however, did not let him do me any harm.
8. Whenever your father said, ‘The speckled animals will be your wages,’ the entire flock would bear speckled young; whenever he said, ‘The streaked animals will be your wages,’ the entire flock would bear streaked young.
9. So God took away your father’s livestock and gave it to me.
10. Once, during the flock’s mating season, I had a dream in which I saw he-goats mating that were streaked, speckled and mottled.
11. In the dream God’s angel said to me, ‘Jacob!’ and I replied, ‘Here I am!’