Ezekiel 1:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Such were their faces. And their wings were stretched out upward [each creature had four wings]; two wings of each one were touching the [adjacent] wing of the creatures on either side of it, and [the remaining] two wings of each creature covered its body.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And their faces and their wings were separate above; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

Common English Bible

¹¹ The pairs of wings that stretched out overhead touched each other, while the other pairs covered their bodies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Their faces and their wings were extended above: two wings of each one were joined together, and two covered their bodies.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ And their faces and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies.

Ezekiel 1:11 Cross References

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 1:23

Under the dome their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another, and each of the creatures had two wings covering its body.

Ezekiel 10:16

When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise up from the earth, the wheels at their side did not veer.

Ezekiel 10:19

The cherubim lifted up their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight as they went out with the wheels beside them. They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.