²² Now Gideon ^(A)perceived that He was the Angel of the Lord. So Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! ^(B)For I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face.”

³⁰ So Jacob called the name of the place ^[a]Peniel: “For ^(A)I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

²⁰ But He said, “You cannot see My face; for ^(A)no man shall see Me, and live.”

^26 (A)For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

^41 (A)These things Isaiah said ^[a]when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

^18 (A)No one has seen God at any time. ^(B)The only begotten ^[a]Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

⁵ So I said:

⁶ Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from ^(B)the altar. ⁷ And he ^(C)touched my mouth with it, and said:

⁸ Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

²¹ When the Angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, ^(A)then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of the Lord.

²² And Manoah said to his wife, ^(B)“We shall surely die, because we have seen God!”

²³ But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time.”

²⁴ And you said: ‘Surely the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and ^(A)we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he ^(B)still lives.