Discovery BoxEzekiel 1:23 
Context1:23 Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering 1 its body.
Ezekiel 20:12
Context20:12 I also gave them my Sabbaths 2 as a reminder of our relationship, 3 so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. 4
Ezekiel 20:23
Context20:23 I also swore 5 to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. 6
Ezekiel 21:9
Context21:9 “Son of man, prophesy and say: ‘This is what the Lord says:
“‘A sword, a sword is sharpened,
and also polished.
Ezekiel 24:9
Context24:9 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:
Woe to the city of bloodshed!
I will also make the pile high.
Ezekiel 31:17
Context31:17 Those who lived in its shade, its allies 7 among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.
Ezekiel 43:21
Context43:21 You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.
1 tc Heb “each had two wings covering and each had two wings covering,” a case of dittography. On the analogy of v. 11 and the support of the LXX, which reads the same for v. 11 and this verse, one should perhaps read “each had two wings touching another being and each had two wings covering.”
2 sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).
3 tn Heb “to become a sign between me and them.”
4 tn Or “set them apart.” The last phrase of verse 12 appears to be a citation of Exod 31:13.
5 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
6 sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.
7 tn Heb “its arm.”
