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Jacob Negotiates His Departure from Laban
Genesis 30:25-36
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After Rachel had given birth to Yosef, Ya'akov said to Lavan, "Send me on my way, so that I can return to my own place, to my own country.
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Let me take my wives, for whom I have served you, and my children; and let me go. You know very well how faithfully I have served you."
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Lavan answered him, "If you regard me favorably, then please listen: I have observed the signs that ADONAI has blessed me on account of you.
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Name your wages," he said; "I will pay them."
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Ya'akov replied, "You know how faithfully I have served you and how your livestock have prospered under my care.
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The few you had before I came have increased substantially; ADONAI has blessed you wherever I went. But now, when will I provide for my own household?"
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Lavan said, "What should I give you?""Nothing," answered Ya'akov, "just do this one thing for me: once more I will pasture your flock and take care of it.
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I will also go through the flock and pick out every speckled, spotted or brown sheep, and every speckled or spotted goat; these and their offspring will be my wages.
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And I will let my integrity stand as witness against me in the future: when you come to look over the animals constituting my wages, every goat that isn't speckled or spotted and every sheep that isn't brown will count as stolen by me."
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Lavan replied, "As you have said, so be it."
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That day Lavan removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted and all the female goats that were speckled or spotted, every one with white on it, and all the brown sheep; turned them over to his sons;
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and put three days' distance between himself and Ya'akov. Ya'akov fed the rest of Lavan's flocks.
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