Ezekiel 1:11

Thus were their faces: and their wings were spread out upward; every one had two joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

Leeser Tanakh

In The 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.

In Context

10And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man; and the face of a lion, on the right side for all four of them; and the face of an ox on the left side for all four of them; and the face of an eagle for all four of them.

12And they went every one in the direction of one of his faces: whither the spirit was directed to go, they went; they turned not about in their going.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 1:23And under the vault their wings were straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered them, and every one had two, which covered them,—[namely,] their bodies.

Ezekiel 10:19And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went forth, and the wheels at the same time with them, and halted at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord: and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 1:5-15

Vision of the Four Living Creatures. ( b. c. 595.) 4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire. 5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 7 And their feet were straight feet; and the… Read the whole commentary →

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