Text -- Exodus 37:9 (NET)

37:9 The cherubim were spreading their wings upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the atonement lid.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Exo 37:9

¹ tn The construction is a participle in construct followed by the genitive “wings” – “spreaders of wings.”

² tn “The cherubim” has been placed here instead of in the second clause to produce a smoother translation.

³ tn Heb “and their faces a man to his brother.”

⁴ tn Heb “to the atonement lid were the faces of the cherubim.”