Ezekiel Chapter 1 verse 11 Holy Bible
And their faces and their wings were separate above; two `wings' of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
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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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And their faces and their wings were parted above; two [wings] of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
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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.
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Their faces and their wings were separate above; two [wings] of everyone were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
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And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each `are' two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Thus were their faces: and, etc.; better, with Revised Version, and their faces and their wings were separate above; i.e. were stretched upward, touching the neighbouring wings at the tip, and so "joined," while the other two covered the bodies and were never stretched (comp. Isaiah 6:2).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward.--Rather, and their wings and their faces were separated above. The word never has the sense of stretched, but always that of separated or divided, as given in the margin. Each cherub was essentially one creature, and yet (not Janus-like, with four faces upon one head) their heads and their wings were separated above, and when they were in flight the two lifted wings touched on either side the wing of the next cherub, while two were used to veil their bodies. There is much of emphatic repetition throughout the description.
