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Ezekiel 1:15-17
New English Translation
Ezekiel 1:15-17
New English Translation
15 Then I looked,[a] and I saw one wheel[b] on the ground[c] beside each of the four beings. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their construction[d] was like gleaming jasper,[e] and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel.[f] 17 When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.
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- Ezekiel 1:15 tc The MT includes “at the living beings,” which is absent from the LXX.
- Ezekiel 1:15 sn Another vision that includes wheels on thrones occurs in Dan 7:9. Ezekiel 10 contains a vision similar to this one.
- Ezekiel 1:15 tn The Hebrew word may be translated either “earth” or “ground” in this context.
- Ezekiel 1:16 tc This word is omitted from the LXX.
- Ezekiel 1:16 tn Heb “Tarshish stone.” The meaning of this term is uncertain. The term has also been translated “topaz” (NEB), “beryl” (KJV, NASB, NRSV), or “chrysolite” (RSV, NIV).
- Ezekiel 1:16 tn Or “like a wheel at right angles to another wheel.” Some envision concentric wheels here, while others propose “a globe-like structure in which two wheels stand at right angles” (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:33-34). The description given in v. 17 favors the latter idea.
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