1:6 but each had four faces and four wings.
1:7 Their legs were straight, but the soles of their feet were like calves’ feet. They gleamed 1 like polished bronze.
1:8 They had human hands 2 under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,
1:9 their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead. 3
1 sn The Hebrew verb translated gleamed occurs only here in the OT.
2 tc The MT reads “his hand” while many Hebrew mss as well as the Qere read “hands of.” Two similar Hebrew letters, vav and yod, have been confused.
3 tnHeb “They each went in the direction of one of his faces.”