So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

Then he washed his face and came out. With composure he said, “Set out the food.”

So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees and bowed down with his face to the ground.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

But you said to your servants, ‘If your youngest brother does not come down with you, you will not see my face again.’

“No, please take them,” Jacob said. “If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.

But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”

and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.

When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

For in seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.”

That is why its name was called Babel – because there the Lord confused the language of the entire world, and from there the Lord scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

Then God said, “I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

But if you will not send him, we won’t go down there because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”