Genesis 28:10-30:43

this starts out with Jacob dreaming... jacob's ladder.  We would do well to remember what God told him in 28:15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, ... I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."  He is there. always.  we just aren't always aware of his presence.  

Jacob also promised to give God a tenth of everything.  As we should.

The Rich Mullin's song Jacob and 2 Women sums up the rest pretty well:

Jacob he loved Rachel and Rachel she loved him
And Leah was just there for dramatic effect
Well it's right there in the Bible so it must not be a sin
But it sure does seem like an awful dirty trick
And her sky is just a petal pressed in a book of a memory
Of the time he thought he loved her and they kissed
And her friends say "Ah he's a devil"
But she says "No he is a dream"
This is the world as best as I can remember it

Now Jacob got two women and a whole house full of kids
And he schemed his way back to the promised land
And he finds it's one thing to win 'em
And it's another to keep 'em content
When he knows that he is only just one man
And his sky's an empty bottle and when he's drunk the ocean dry
Well he sails off three sheets to some reckless wind
And his friends say "Ain't it awful"
And he says "No I think it's fine"
And this is the world as best as I can remember it

Now Rachel's weeping for the children
That she thought she could not bear
And she bears a sorrow that she cannot hide
And she wishes she was with them
But she just looks and they're not there
Seems that love comes for just a moment
And then it passes on by

And her sky is just a bandit
Swinging at the end of a hangman's noose
'Cause he stole the moon and must be made to pay for it
And her friends say "My that's tragic"
She says "Especially for the moon"
And this is the world as best as I can remember it "

Leah wasn't loved so she bore 3 boys.  Praising God, but still not loved.  Rachel was barren.  and jealous.  so she gave her servant to him to bear sons. sound familiar? Rings of Sarah...  The ladies went around like this with Leah and maidservants having babies.  Then: 30:22 Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and opened her womb. 23 She became pregnant and gave birth to a son and said, "God has taken away my disgrace."

Jacob then wisely acquired a large and strong flock for himself by keeping only the blemished, spotted, dark sheep.  He was methodical and cautious as to how he accomplished this.