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• After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban: "Give me leave to go to my homeland. (Genesis 30, 25)

• Jacob replied: "You know what work I did for you and how well your livestock fared under my care; (Genesis 30, 29)

• "What should I pay you?" Laban asked. Jacob answered: "You do not have to pay me anything outright. I will again pasture and tend your flock, if you do this one thing for me: (Genesis 30, 31)

• Then he put a three days' journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to pasture the rest of Laban's flock. (Genesis 30, 36)

• Jacob, however, got some fresh shoots of poplar, almond and plane trees, and he made white stripes in them by peeling off the bark down to the white core of the shoots. (Genesis 30, 37)

• The sheep, on the other hand, Jacob kept apart, and he set these animals to face the streaked or fully dark-colored animals of Laban. Thus he produced special flocks of his own, which he did not put with Laban's flock. (Genesis 30, 40)

• Moreover, whenever the hardier animals were in heat, Jacob would set the rods in the troughs in full view of these animals, so that they mated by the rods; (Genesis 30, 41)

• but with the weaker animals he would not put the rods there. So the feeble animals would go to Laban, but the sturdy ones to Jacob. (Genesis 30, 42)

• Jacob learned that Laban's sons were saying, "Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father, and he has accumulated all this wealth of his by using our father's property." (Genesis 31, 1)

• Jacob perceived, too, that Laban's attitude toward him was not what it had previously been. (Genesis 31, 2)

• Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, where you were born, and I will be with you." (Genesis 31, 3)

• So Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to meet him where he was in the field with his flock. (Genesis 31, 4)