Ezekiel 10:10-13
10:10 As for their appearance, all four of them looked the same, something like a wheel within a wheel. 1
10:11 When they 2 moved, they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved; in the direction the head would turn they would follow 3 without turning as they moved,
10:12 along with their entire bodies, 4 their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.
10:13 As for their wheels, they were called “the wheelwork” 5 as I listened.
1 tn Or “like a wheel at right angles to another wheel.” Some envision concentric wheels here, while others propose “a globe-like structure in which two wheels stand at right angles” (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:33-34). See also 1:16.
2 sn That is, the cherubim.
3 tn Many interpreters assume that the human face of each cherub was the one that looked forward.
4 tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.
5 tn Or “the whirling wheels.”