1 One day Jacob heard Laban’s sons talking. They said, “Jacob has taken everything that our father owned. He has become rich—and he has taken all this wealth from our father.”
2 Then Jacob noticed that Laban was not as friendly as he had been in the past.
3 The Lord said to Jacob, “Go back to your own land where your ancestors lived. I will be with you.”
4 So Jacob told Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his flocks of sheep and goats.
5 He said to them, “I have noticed that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be. But the God of my father has been with me.
6 You both know that I have worked as hard as I could for your father.
7 But he cheated me. He has changed my pay ten times. But during all this time, God protected me from all of Laban’s tricks.