Ezekiel 1:8

⁶ And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

⁷ And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

⁹ Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

¹⁰ As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

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.

Compare

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]:
DARBY: And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings:
BLB: And the hands of a man [were] under their wings on four of their sides. And the faces and wings [were] unto the four of them,

ÅB: Og de hadde menneskehender under vingene på alle fire sider, og alle fire hadde ansikter og vinger.
OTB: Under vingene på deres fire sider var det menneskehender. Alle fire hadde ansikter og vinger.
B1930: Og de hadde menneskehender under vingene på alle fire sider, og alle fire hadde ansikter og vinger.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 10:21
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
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Ezekiel 10:18
Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
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Ezekiel 10:11
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
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Ezekiel 8:3
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
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Ezekiel 10:2
And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
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Ezekiel 10:7–8
And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.
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Ezekiel 1:17
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
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Isaiah 6:6
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
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