Ezekiel 1:12 “Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they…”

Ezekiel 1:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

World English Bible

Each one went straight forward. Where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn when they went.

American Standard Version

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.

Geneva Bible 1599

And euery one went streight forward: they went whither their spirit led them, and they returned not when they went forth.

Darby Translation

And they went every one straight forward: whither the Spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.

Young's Literal Translation

And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going.

Bible in Basic English

Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning.

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Cross references

“they went every”

Ezekiel 1:9 Ezekiel 1:17 Ezekiel 10:22

Ezekiel 1:9 · BSB

and their wings were touching one another. They did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

Ezekiel 1:17 · BSB

As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

Ezekiel 10:22 · BSB

Their faces looked like the faces I had seen by the River Kebar. Each creature went straight ahead.

“whither”

Hebrews 1:14 Ezekiel 1:20 Ezekiel 1:21

Hebrews 1:14 · BSB

Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

Ezekiel 1:20 · BSB

Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1:21 · BSB

When the creatures moved, the wheels moved; when the creatures stood still, the wheels stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose alongside them, because the spirit of the living creatures…

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

In context

11Such 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.

13In the midst of the living creatures was the appearance of glowing coals of fire, or of torches. Fire moved back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.

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