25And it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my place and to my land.26Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know the service which I have rendered you."27Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, I have divined that the LORD has blessed me because of you."28He said, "Name your wages upon me, and I will give them."29He said to him, "You know how I have served you and how your livestock have been with me.30For the little that you had before me has increased to abundance, and the LORD has blessed you at my foot; and now, when shall I also do something for my own house?"31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything; if you will do this thing for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it.32I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep, and every dark sheep among the lambs, and every spotted and speckled goat; and such shall be my wages.33So my righteousness will answer for me on the following day, when you come concerning my wages before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and dark among the lambs, it shall be considered stolen by me."34Laban said, "Look, if it will be according to your word."35So that day he removed the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted goats—every one that had white on it—and all the dark ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.36And he put three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob was pasturing the remaining flock of Laban.37Jacob took for himself fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane tree, and peeled white stripes on them, exposing the white that was on the rods.38And he set the rods that he had peeled in the troughs, in the watering places where the flock came to drink, in front of the flock; and they conceived when they came to drink.39So the flock conceived before the rods and brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted young.40Jacob separated the lambs, and he set the faces of the flock toward the striped and all the dark ones in the flock of Laban; and he set his own flocks apart and did not set them with Laban's flock.41And whenever the stronger ones of the flock conceived, Jacob set the rods before the eyes of the flock in the troughs, so that they would conceive by the rods.42But when the flock was weak, he did not set them; so the weak ones belonged to Laban, and the stronger ones belonged to Jacob.43Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and he had large flocks, and maidservants and servants, and camels and donkeys.