10 But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from me. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God’s face, since you have accepted me.

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10 “No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes,(A) accept this gift(B) from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God,(C) now that you have received me favorably.(D)

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10 and they saw(A) the God of Israel. Beneath his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself.(B)

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10 and saw(A) the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli,(B) as bright blue as the sky.(C)

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20 But he added, “You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see(A) me and live.”

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20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see(A) me and live.”

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22 When Gideon realized that he was the angel of the Lord, he said, “Oh no, Lord God!(A) I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!” (B)

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22 When Gideon realized(A) that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”(B)

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Then I said:

Woe is me(A) for I am ruined[a]
because I am a man of unclean lips
and live among a people of unclean lips,(B)
and because my eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of Armies.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:5 Or I must be silent

“Woe(A) to me!” I cried. “I am ruined!(B) For I am a man of unclean lips,(C) and I live among a people of unclean lips,(D) and my eyes have seen(E) the King,(F) the Lord Almighty.”(G)

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