Ezekiel 1:9

1:9 their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead. ¹ 

Ezekiel 1:14

1:14 The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning. ² 

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¹ tn Heb “They each went in the direction of one of his faces.”

² 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.