Jakob told his wives what their father had done during the twenty years of his service. If now he said, The streaked shall be thy wages, all the sheep bare streaked; and if now he said, The spotted-footed shall be thy wages, all the sheep bare those which were spotted in their feet (Genesis 31:8).
This is one of the quiet miracles of the Laban saga. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan shows us a father-in-law who kept trying to outmaneuver heaven by adjusting the contract. Every time Laban changed the definition of Jakob's wages, the sheep themselves shifted to match the new definition.
You can feel the absurdity. Laban would step into the fold and announce a new rule. Within weeks the pastures would fill with exactly the kind of lambs he had just disqualified. The world itself was refusing to let him cheat.
The Maggid teaches: when heaven has decided to bless you, the terms of your contract become instruments of that blessing. Jakob did not need to argue with Laban's ten reversals. The flocks argued for him. Ten times. And ten times they won.