Ezekiel 1:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for a living spirit was in the wheels.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Wherever the spirit went, the creatures went and the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit or life of the [four living creatures acting as one] living creature was in the wheels.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went; thither was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Wherever the wind would appear to go, the wind would make them go there too. The wheels rose up beside them, because the spirit of the creatures was in the wheels.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Wherever the spirit went, as the spirit was going forth to that place, the wheels, too, were lifted up together, so as to follow them. For the spirit of life was in the wheels.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Whithersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1:20 Cross References

Ezekiel 1:12

Each moved straight ahead; wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went.

Ezekiel 1:21

When they moved, the others moved; when they stopped, the others stopped; and when they rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them, for a living spirit was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 10:17

When they stopped, the others stopped, and when they rose up, the others rose up with them, for a living spirit was in them.

1 Corinthians 14:32

(and the spirits of prophets are subject to the prophets,