Yehezkiel 10:9-12

10:9 As I watched, I noticed ¹  four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; ²  the wheels gleamed like jasper. ³  10:10 As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel. ⁴  10:11 When they ⁵  moved, they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved; in the direction the head would turn they would follow ⁶  without turning as they moved, 10:12 along with their entire bodies, ⁷  their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

[10:9]  ¹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[10:9]  ² tn The MT repeats this phrase, a clear case of dittography.

[10:9]  ³ tn Heb “Tarshish stone.” The meaning is uncertain. The term has also been translated “topaz” (NEB), “beryl” (KJV, NASB, NRSV), and “chrysolite” (RSV, NIV).

[10:10]  ⁴ tn Or “like a wheel at right angles to another wheel.” Some envision concentric wheels here, while others propose “a globe-like structure in which two wheels stand at right angles” (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:33-34). See also 1:16.

[10:11]  ⁵ sn That is, the cherubim.

[10:11]  ⁶ tn Many interpreters assume that the human face of each cherub was the one that looked forward.

[10:12]  ⁷ tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.