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18 Then the glory of the Lord left the threshold of the temple and took its place upon the cherubim. 19 The cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the earth before my eyes as they departed with the wheels beside them. They stopped at the entrance of the eastern gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel was up above them.(A) 20 [a]These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the river Chebar. Now I knew they were cherubim.(B) 21 Each of them had four faces and four wings, and something like human hands under their wings. 22 Their faces looked just like the faces I had seen by the river Chebar; and each one went straight ahead.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:20–22 The repetition of description from the preceding verses is a device intended to suggest the rapid, constantly changing motion of the vision and the difficulty of describing the divine in human language.

18 Then the glory(A) of the Lord departed from over the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.(B) 19 While I watched, the cherubim spread their wings and rose from the ground, and as they went, the wheels went with them.(C) They stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory(D) of the God of Israel was above them.

20 These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River,(E) and I realized that they were cherubim. 21 Each had four faces(F) and four wings,(G) and under their wings was what looked like human hands. 22 Their faces had the same appearance as those I had seen by the Kebar River.(H) Each one went straight ahead.

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