Ezekiel 10:10-13

10:10 As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel. ¹  10:11 When they ²  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 ³  without turning as they moved, 10:12 along with their entire bodies, ⁴  their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around. 10:13 As for their wheels, they were called “the wheelwork” ⁵  as I listened.

¹ 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.

² sn That is, the cherubim.

³ tn Many interpreters assume that the human face of each cherub was the one that looked forward.

³ tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.

⁴ tn Or “the whirling wheels.”