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The Four Living Creatures

Ezekiel 1:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four living creatures had faces and wings,
KJV
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
WEB
They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:
ASV
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings thus:
LSV
and on their four sides [each had] hands of man under their wings; and [each] of the four had their faces and their wings;
YLT
and hands of man under their wings — on their four sides, and their faces and their wings — [are] to them four;
DBY
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings:
DRC
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they bad faces, and wings on the four sides,
GNV
And the handes of a man came out from vnder their wings in the foure parts of them, and they foure had their faces, and their wings.
JPS
And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and as for the faces and wings of them four,
LXXE
And the hand of a man was under their wings on their four sides.

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  • Written (Ketiv): וְיָדוֹ (“and hands of its”). Read aloud (Qere): וִידֵ֣י (“and [the] hands of”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • Leningrad Codex reads וִידֵ֣ו; read aloud (Qere) reads וִידֵ֣י (“and [the] hands of”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC
וידו אָדָ֗ם מִתַּ֨חַת֙ כַּנְפֵיהֶ֔ם עַ֖ל אַרְבַּ֣עַת רִבְעֵיהֶ֑ם וּפְנֵיהֶ֥ם וְכַנְפֵיהֶ֖ם לְאַרְבַּעְתָּֽם׃Read aloud as (qere): וִידֵ֣י
LXX-Br
Καὶ χεὶρ ἀνθρώπου ὑποκάτωθεν τῶν πτερύγων αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὰ τέσσαρα μέρη αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 10:21Each had four faces and four wings, with what looked like human hands under their wings.
  • Ezekiel 10:7–8Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand and took some of the fire that was among them. And he put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who received it and went out. (The cherubim appeared to have the…
  • Ezekiel 10:18Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.
  • Ezekiel 8:3He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the…
  • Isaiah 6:6Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
  • Ezekiel 1:17As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.
  • Ezekiel 10:11When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.
  • Ezekiel 10:2And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.

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