Rabbi Ḥunya said: He appeared to him in the image of a herdsman; this one had flocks and that one had flocks, this one had camels and that one had camels. He said to him: 'Cross yours and then I will cross mine.' Jacob crossed his. He said: 'Let us return and see, whether, perhaps, we forgot something.'
When he returned, “a man wrestled with him.” Rabbi Ḥiyya Rabba and Rabbi Shimon ben Rabbi were negotiating the sale of these silk fabrics. They entered Tyre and did their business. When they exited the city gates, they said: ‘Let us go and adopt the craft of our ancestors.
Let us return and see if we forgot something.’ They returned and found a package of silk fabrics. They said to them: 'From where do you have this practice?'10The practice of returning to check if anything was left behind. They said: 'From Jacob our ancestor, as it is written: “Jacob remained alone.”'
The Rabbis say: He appeared to him as the leader of robbers; this one had flocks and that one had flocks, this one had camels and that one had camels. He said to him: 'Cross mine11To the other side of the river. and I will cross yours.' The angel crossed that of our patriarch Jacob in the blink of an eye. Jacob was crossing, returning, and finding, crossing, returning and finding all night.
He said to him: 'Sorcerer' parkamos; variant reading: parmakos>. Rabbi Pinḥas said: At that moment, Jacob took a scarf and placed it around his12The angel’s neck. neck, He said to him: ‘Parkamos parkamos.’13Jacob was saying to the angel: ‘You do not intimidate me.’ Rav Huna said: Ultimately the angel said: ‘I will inform him with whom he is engaging.’ What did he do?
He placed his finger on the ground and the ground began boiling with fire. Jacob said to him. 'With that you seek to scare me? I am completely constituted from it.' That is what is written: “The house of Jacob will be fire…” (Obadiah 1:18).