'Face' in the Bible

By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."

but he didn't respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

He said, "Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? Where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai."

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.

You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

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

Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'

but if you'll not send him, we'll not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"

He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, "Serve the meal."

You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'

We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'

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

Israel said to Joseph, "I didn't think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your seed also."

Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, "Behold, we are your servants."