Ezekiel 1:27

1:27 I saw an amber glow ¹  like a fire enclosed all around ²  from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,

Ezekiel 8:2

8:2 As I watched, I noticed ³  a form that appeared to be a man. ⁴  From his waist downward was something like fire, ⁵  and from his waist upward something like a brightness, ⁶  like an amber glow. ⁷ 

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¹ tn See Ezek 1:4.

² tc The LXX lacks this phrase. Its absence from the LXX may be explained as a case of haplography resulting from homoioteleuton, skipping from כְּמַרְאֵה (kÿmar’eh) to מִמַּרְאֵה (mimmar’eh). On the other hand, the LXX presents a much more balanced verse structure when it is recognized that the final words of this verse belong in the next sentence.

³ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb (so also throughout the chapter).

⁴ tc The MT reads “fire” rather than “man,” the reading of the LXX. The nouns are very similar in Hebrew.

⁵ tc The MT reads “what appeared to be his waist and downwards was fire.” The LXX omits “what appeared to be,” reading “from his waist to below was fire.” Suggesting that “like what appeared to be” belongs before “fire,” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:277) points out the resulting poetic symmetry of form with the next line as followed in the translation here.

⁶ tc The LXX omits “like a brightness.”

⁷ tn See Ezek 1:4.