Ezekiel 1:11 “Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wi…”

Ezekiel 1:11

Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

World English Bible

Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.

American Standard Version

And their faces and their wings were separate above; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thus were their faces: but their wings were spred out aboue: two wings of euery one were ioined one to another, and two couered their bodies.

Darby Translation

And their faces and their wings were parted above; two [wings] of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

Young's Literal Translation

And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.

Bible in Basic English

And their wings were separate at the top; two of the wings of every one were joined one to another, and two were covering their bodies.

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Cross references

“and their”

Ezekiel 10:16 Ezekiel 10:19

Ezekiel 10:16 · BSB

When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.

Ezekiel 10:19 · BSB

As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God o…

“and two”

Isaiah 6:2 Ezekiel 1:23

Isaiah 6:2 · BSB

Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

Ezekiel 1:23 · BSB

And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two wings covering its body.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.

12Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

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