מדרש אויף בראשית 30:28

What is written above about the matter (in Gen. 30:25)? NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN RACHEL HAB BORNE JOSEPH, THAT JACOB SAID UNTO LABAN: SEND ME AWAY < THAT I MAY GO TO MY OWN HOME AND MY LAND >. But, if you do not want to send me away, I am going without your permission. Laban said to him: With none of the sons that you sired except Joseph, have you said to me: SEND ME AWAY! He told him that he would bring Esau the Wicked to account. Ergo (in Gen. 30:25): SEND ME AWAY THAT I MAY GO < TO MY OWN HOME AND MY LAND >. (Gen. 30:27:) BUT LABAN SAID UNTO HIM…. I HAVE LEARNED BY DIVINATION < THAT THE LORD HAS BLESSED ME FOR YOUR SAKE >. On that very day at Jacob's feet he had found a treasure⁸⁰Codex Vaticanus Ebr. 34 adds: “i.e., a precious stone.” which would bring luck. He therefore says (in Gen. 30:27): I HAVE LEARNED BY DIVINATION. R. Berekhyah said: Laban had learned by divination, but Jacob did not know it. And what was he concerned about? (Gen. 30:27:) THAT THE LORD HAS BLESSED ME FOR YOUR SAKE. Laban said (in vs. 28): NAME YOUR WAGES. He said to him: You get the speckled < of the flock > and I get the mottled from whatever dams give birth. (Gen. 30:36:) AND JACOB WAS PASTURING THE FLOCK OF LABAN THAT REMAINED. What was it THAT REMAINED (HNWTRWT)? Resh Laqish said: The dams who were old, sterile, < and > sick.⁸¹This is the normal spelling of the Hebrew word, but the Masoretic Text spells it defectively as HNWTRT. Resh Laqish has deduced from the missing letter that the animals referred to were defective. See Gen. R. 73:9. By correcting the spelling, the Buber text has obscured the point. What is written (in vs. 37)? THEN JACOB TOOK A < FRESH > SHOOT OF WHITE POPLAR. R. Hosha'ya said: He fashioned an image; and, just as he fashioned, so they gave birth. He only failed to give them breath. They gave birth and multiplied before him. Laban went back on his < word >. Where is it shown? Where Jacob said so (in Gen. 31:7): AND HE CHANGED MY WAGES…. What did Jacob do when he delayed over him?⁸²Codex Vaticanus Ebr. 34 reads, “when he was obstinate with him.” He sent after the children of his house, as stated (in Gen. 31:4): SO JACOB SENT AND CALLED RACHEL AND LEAH TO THE FIELD. Why not within his house? R. Simeon ben Gamaliel said: For three things I like the children of the East:⁸³Gen. R. 74:2; PRK 4:3; Ber. 8b (bar.)

“Laban said to him: If now I have found favor in your eyes, I have divined, and the Lord has blessed me on your account” (Genesis 30:27).
“Laban said to him: If now I have found favor in your eyes, [I have divined]” – I attempted and examined,¹⁴“Divined” could not refer to divination, as that is abhorrent in the eyes of God and Jacob. The proper interpretation is that he examined the differences in his household between the pre-Jacob era and since Jacob arrived. “and the Lord has blessed me on your account.”
“He said: Stipulate your wages for me, and I will give them” (Genesis 30:28).
“He said: Stipulate your wages for me” – calculate, quantify, and state <what your="" wages="" are="">.
“He said to him: You know how I have served you, and how your livestock was with me” (Genesis 30:29).
“For the little that you had before me has increased abundantly and the Lord has blessed you on my account and now, when will I, too, provide for my household?” (Genesis 30:30).
“He said to him: You know…For the little [me’at] that you had…has increased abundantly” – Rabbi Yehuda said in the name of Rabbi Simon in the name of Rabbi Ḥizkiya: Me’at – seventy heads [of livestock]. Me’at is stated here and me’at is stated elsewhere: “[He went down to Egypt with] few in number [bimtei me’at]” (Deuteronomy 26:5). Just as there it is seventy people,¹⁵“All the people of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy” (Genesis 46:27). so, too, here, it is seventy heads.
“The Lord has blessed you on my account” – everywhere the righteous go, blessing is sent. Isaac descended to Gerar, blessing came on his account, as it is stated: “Isaac planted in that land and found in [that] year…and God blessed him.” (Genesis 26:12). Jacob descended to Laban and blessing came on his account, as it is stated: “The Lord has blessed you on my account.” Joseph descended to Potiphar, blessing came on his account, as it is stated: “The Lord blessed the household of the Egyptian” (Genesis 39:5).
“Now, when will I, too, provide for my household?” – Reuben requires a house, Simeon requires a house.