Exodus 37:9

The cherubim were spreading their wings ¹  upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim ²  faced each other, ³  looking toward the atonement lid. ⁴ 

Ge 3:24; Ge 28:12; Ex 25:20; Isa 6:2; Eze 10:1-22; Joh 1:51; 2Co 3:18; Eph 3:10; Php 3:8; 1Ti 3:16; Heb 1:14; 1Pe 1:12

¹ tn The construction is a participle in construct followed by the genitive “wings” – “spreaders of wings.”

² tn “The cherubim” has been placed here instead of in the second clause to produce a smoother translation.

³ tn Heb “and their faces a man to his brother.”

⁴ tn Heb “to the atonement lid were the faces of the cherubim.”