1 Kings 6:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub and five cubits its other wing; from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

Common English Bible

²⁴ The wings of the first winged creature were each seven and a half feet long. It was fifteen feet from the end of one wing to the end of the other.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ One wing of a cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of a cherub was five cubits, that is, having ten cubits from the summit of one wing even to the summit of the other wing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub was five cubits: that is, in all ten cubits, from the extremity of one wing to the extremity of the other wing.

1 Kings 6:24 Cross References

1 Kings 6:23

In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.

1 Kings 6:25

The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.

Isaiah 6:2

Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.

Ezekiel 1:6

Each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.