numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands on the seashore. In , God reminded Isaac that God had promised Abraham that God would make his heirs as numerous as the stars. Similarly, in , Moses reminded God that God had promised to make the Patriarch's descendants as numerous as the stars. In , Moses reported that God had multiplied the Israelites until they were then as numerous as the stars. In , Moses reported that God had made the Israelites as numerous as the stars. And foretold that the Israelites would be reduced in number after having been as numerous as the stars. , part of the haftarah for the parashah, interpreted Jacob's encounter with the angel. says that Jacob by his strength strove with a godlike being. says that Jacob strove with an angel and prevailed, and that the angel wept and supplicated Jacob. And further says that at Bethel, Jacob found the angel and spoke with him there. Just as in , Jacob asked his adversary to tell him his name, in , Manoah asked the angel who visited him and his wife, "What is your name, so that when your words come to pass, we may do you honor?" And just as in , Jacob's adversary replied: "Why is it that you ask after my name?" in , the angel replied to Manoah: "Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is hidden?" Genesis chapter 33 The 100 pieces of silver that Jacob paid the children of Hamor for the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent outside the city of Shechem in compares with the 400 shekels of silver that Abraham paid Ephron the Hittite to buy the cave of Machpelah and adjoining land in ; the 50 shekels of silver that King David paid Araunah the Jebusite for Araunah's threshing floor, oxen, and wood in 2 Samuel (but 1 Chronicles reports cost 600 shekels of gold); and the 17 shekels of silver that Jeremiah paid his cousin Hanamel for his field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin in . Genesis chapter 35 The report of that Reuben lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it, is echoed in , when Jacob recalled the incident and deprived Reuben of the blessing of the firstborn, because he went up on Jacob's bed and defiled it. reports that the