1 GLT As I looked toward the dome that was over the heads of the cherubim; something appeared above them like a sapphire with the appearance of the likeness of a throne. BSB BSB: And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
2 GLT Then Yahweh spoke to the man dressed in linen and said,“Go between the wheels underneath the cherubim, and fill both your hands with fiery coals from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” Then the man went in as I watched. BSB BSB: And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.
3 GLT The cherubim stood on the right side of the house when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner courtyard. BSB BSB: Now when the man went in, the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple, and a cloud filled the inner court.
4 GLT The glory of Yahweh rose up from the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the house. It filled the house with the cloud, and the courtyard was full of the brightness of Yahweh’ s glory. BSB BSB: Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.
5 GLT The sound of the cherubim’ s wings was heard as far as the outer courtyard, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. BSB BSB: The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.
6 GLT It came about, when God commanded the man dressed in linen and said,“Take fire from between the wheels that are between the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel. BSB BSB: When the LORD commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.
7 GLT A cherub reached out his hand between the cherubim to the fire that was among the cherubim, and lifted it up and placed it into the hands of the one dressed in linen. The man took it and went back out. BSB BSB: Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand and took some of the fire that was among them. And he put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who received it and went out.
8 GLT I saw on the cherubim something like a man’ s hand under their wings. BSB BSB: (The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.)
9 GLT So I looked, and behold! Four wheels were beside the cherubim— one wheel beside each cherub— and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. BSB BSB: Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone.
10 GLT Their appearance was the same likeness for all four of them, like a wheel intersecting another wheel. BSB BSB: As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.
11 GLT When they moved, they went in any of their four directions, without turning as they went; but whatever direction the head faced, they followed after it without turning as they went. BSB BSB: When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.
12 GLT Their whole body— including their backs, their hands, and their wings— was covered with eyes, and eyes covered the four wheels all around also. BSB BSB: Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.
13 GLT As I listened, the wheels were called,“Whirling.” BSB BSB: I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.”
14 GLT They had four faces each; the first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. BSB BSB: Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.
15 GLT Then the cherubim— these were the living creatures that I had seen by the Kebar Canal— rose up. BSB BSB: Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar.
16 GLT Whenever the cherubim moved, the wheels would go beside them, and whenever the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise up from the earth, the wheels did not turn. They still stayed beside them. BSB BSB: When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.
17 GLT When the cherubim stood still, the wheels stood still, and when they rose up, the wheels rose up with them, for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. BSB BSB: When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
18 GLT Then the glory of Yahweh went out from over the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim. BSB BSB: Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim.
19 GLT The cherubim lifted up their wings and rose from the earth in my sight when they went out, and the wheels did the same beside them. They stood at the eastern entrance to Yahweh’ s house, and the glory of the God of Israel came upon them from above. BSB BSB: As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.
20 GLT These were the living creatures that I had seen below the God of Israel by the Kebar Canal, so I knew that they were cherubim! BSB BSB: These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim.
21 GLT They had four faces each and four wings each, and the likeness of human hands under their wings, BSB BSB: Each had four faces and four wings, with what looked like human hands under their wings.
22 GLT and the likeness of their faces was like the faces that I had seen in the vision at the Kebar Canal, and each of them went straight ahead. BSB BSB: Their faces looked like the faces I had seen by the River Kebar. Each creature went straight ahead.
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