Ezekiel 1:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ Under the dome their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another, and each of the creatures had two wings covering its body.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And under the firmament their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another. Every living creature had two wings which covered its body on this side and two which covered it on that side.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.

Common English Bible

²³ Just below the dome, their outstretched wings touched each other. They each also had two wings to cover their bodies.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And their wings were straight under the firmament, one toward the other. One of them was covered by two wings on his body, and the other was covered similarly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other. Every one with two wings covered his body, and the other was covered in like manner.

Ezekiel 1:23 Cross References

Job 4:18

Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Psalm 89:7

a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and awesome above all who are around him?

Ezekiel 1:24

When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of mighty waters, like the thunder of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army; when they stopped, they let down their wings.

Ezekiel 1:6

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

Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!’ ”