Ezekiel 1:14

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

The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.

And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.

And the living beings darted to and fro like flashes of lightning.

The creatures flashed back and forth like strikes of lightning.

And the living beings went out and came back as quickly as a thunder-flame.

The living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning.

And the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash of lightning.

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

¹ 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.