Ezekiel 1:16

¹⁴ The creatures were darting back and forth as quickly as flashes of lightning.

¹⁵ When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.

¹⁷ As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

¹⁸ Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: The workmanship of the wheels looked like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. Their workmanship looked like a wheel within a wheel.
KJV: The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
WEB: The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl. The four of them had one likeness. Their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
ASV: The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
DARBY: The appearance of the wheels and their work was as the look of a chrysolite; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
BLB: The appearance of the wheels and their workings [was] like an eye of beryl, and a single likeness unto four of them; and their appearance and of their workings [was] as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

ÅB: Hjulene så ut som om de var gjort av noe som lignet krysolitt, og alle fire var lik hverandre, og det så ut som om de var gjort slik at det ene hjul var inne i det andre.
OTB: Utseendet til hjulene var som glitrende topas, og alle fire så like ut. De så ut til å være laget som et hjul innenfor et hjul.
B1930: Hjulene så ut som om de var gjort av noget som lignet krysolitt, og alle fire var lik hverandre, og det så ut som om de var gjort således at det ene hjul var inne i det andre.

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Original text and word study

Cross references

Daniel 10:6
His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
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Ezekiel 10:9–11
Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone.
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Psalms 40:5
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
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Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains; Your judgments are like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.
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Exodus 39:13
and the fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree settings.
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Ephesians 3:10
His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
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Romans 11:33
O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
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Job 9:10
He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
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