Genesis | 37:1-11

1 Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.” 
2 And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before. 
3 Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
4 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was 
5 and said to them, “I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me. 
6 You know that I have served your father with all my strength, 
7 yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me. 
8 If he said, ‘The spotted shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore striped. 
9 Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me. 
10 In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled. 11 Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!