Ezekiel 1:14

1:14 The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning.

Ezekiel 10:15

10:15 The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.


tc The LXX omits v. 14 and may well be correct. The verse may be a later explanatory gloss of the end of v. 13 which was copied into the main text. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:46.

tn Lit., “like the appearance of lightning.” The Hebrew term translated “lightning” occurs only here in the OT. In postbiblical Hebrew the term refers to a lightning flash.

tn Heb “it was the living creature.”