Laban & Jacob Reach a Payment Agreement

After Rachel gave birth to Joseph,
Jacob said to Laban,
"Send me on my way
so I can go back to my own homeland.
Give me my wives and children,
for whom I have served you,
and I will be on my way.
You know how much work I've done for you."

But Laban said to him,
"If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay.
I have learned by divination
that the Lord has blessed me because of you."
He added, "Name your wages, and I will pay them."

Jacob said to him,
"You know how I have worked for you
and how your livestock has fared under my care.
The little you had before I came has increased greatly,
and he Lord has blessed you wherever I have been.
But now,
when may I do something for my own household?"

"What shall I give you?" he asked.

"Don't give me anything," Jacob replied.
"But if you will do this one thing for me,
I will go on tending your flocks 
and watching over them:
Let me go through all your flocks today
and remove from them 
every speckled or spotted sheep,
every dark-colored lamb
and every spotted or speckled goat.
They will be my wages.
And my honesty will testify for me in the future,
whenever you check on the wages you have paid me.
Any goat in my possession 
that is not speckled or spotted,
or any lamb that is not dark-colored,
will be considered stolen."

"Agreed," said Laban.
"Let it be as you have said."

(Genesis 30:25-34)