Ezekiel 10:16-22

10:16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the cherubim spread ¹  their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not move from their side. 10:17 When the cherubim ²  stood still, the wheels ³  stood still, and when they rose up, the wheels ⁴  rose up with them, for the spirit ⁵  of the living beings ⁶  was in the wheels. ⁷ 

10:18 Then the glory of the Lord moved away from the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim. 10:19 The cherubim spread ⁸  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ⁹  while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

10:20 These were the living creatures ¹⁰  which I saw at the Kebar River underneath the God of Israel; I knew that they were cherubim. 10:21 Each had four faces; each had four wings and the form of human hands under the wings. 10:22 As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.

¹ tn Heb “lifted.”

² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the cherubim) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the wheels) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the wheels) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Or “wind.”

⁶ tn Heb “living creature.”

⁷ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the wheels) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “lifted.”

⁹ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

¹⁰ tn Heb “That was the living creature.”