NET Bible
"If he said,‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said,‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring."
— Genesis 31:8, NET Bible
“If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.”
“If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked. ”
“If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.”
“If at any time, he said: The speckled shall be thy wages: all the sheep brought forth speckled: but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages: all the flocks brought forth white ones.”
“If he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to be yours, then all the flock gave birth to marked young; and if he said, All the banded ones are to be yours, then all the flock had banded young.”
“If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.”
There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,
but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
If he said,‘The speckled animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to speckled offspring. But if he said,‘The streaked animals will be your wage,’ then the entire flock gave birth to streaked offspring.
In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.
In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.