Reading , “Yea, he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him,” the Gemara commented that this verse did not make clear who prevailed over whom. But , “For you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed,” made clear that Jacob mastered the angel. , “He wept and made supplication to him,” does not make clear who wept to whom. But the angel's words in , “And he said: ‘Let me go,’” made clear that the angel wept to Jacob. Reading , “For you have striven with God and with men,” Rabbah taught that the angel intimated to Jacob that two princes were destined to come from him: the Exilarch in Babylon and the Prince in the Land of Israel. The angel thus hinted to Jacob of the coming exile of the Jewish people.