Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each are two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.
New American Standard Bible
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
That is what their faces were like. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching that of another and two wings covering its body.
International Standard Version
That's what their faces were like. Their wings spread out above and around them, one pair overlapping another, with one pair covering themselves.
A Conservative Version
And their faces and their wings were separate above, two [wings] of each one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
American Standard Version
And their faces and their wings were separate above; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Amplified
Such were their faces. Their wings were stretched out upward; two [wings] of each one were touching another [the wings of the beings on either side of it], and [the remaining] two [wings of each being] were covering their bodies.
Bible in Basic English
And their wings were separate at the top; two of the wings of every one were joined one to another, and two were covering their bodies.
Darby Translation
And their faces and their wings were parted above; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Julia Smith Translation
And their faces: and their wings spread out from above; to each of the two being joined each, and two covering their bodies.
King James 2000
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of each one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So [were] their faces; their wings [were] spread out {upward}; each [had] two touching one another and two covering their bodies.
Modern King James verseion
So their faces were. And their wings were stretched upward; to each, the two wings of each one were joined; and two wings covered their bodies.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Their faces also and their wings were spread out above: so that two wings of one touched ever two wings of another, and with the other two they covered their body.
NET Bible
Their wings were spread out above them; each had two wings touching the wings of one of the other beings on either side and two wings covering their bodies.
New Heart English Bible
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.
The Emphasized Bible
and their wings were spread above, - two of each joined one another, and two covered their bodies;
Webster
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.
World English Bible
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.
Interlinear
Paniym
Kanaph
Parad
Ma`al
Sh@nayim
Chabar
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 1:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Date Of Vision Of Living Creatures And Glory Of The Throne Of Yahweh
10 As to the likeness of their faces, the face of a man, and the face of a lion, toward the right are to them four, and the face of an ox on the left are to them four, and the face of an eagle are to them four. 11 And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each are two joining together, and two are covering their bodies. 12 And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going.
Cross References
Isaiah 6:2
Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two each covereth its face, and with two each covereth its feet, and with two each flieth.
Ezekiel 1:23
And under the expanse their wings are straight, one toward the other, to each are two covering on this side, and to each are two covering on that side -- their bodies.
Ezekiel 10:16
And in the going of the cherubs, the wheels go beside them; and in the cherubs lifting up their wings to be high above the earth, the wheels turn not round, even they, from being beside them.
Ezekiel 10:19
and the cherubs lift up their wings, and are lifted up from the earth before mine eyes; in their going forth, the wheels also are over-against them, and he standeth at the opening of the east gate of the house of Jehovah, and the honour of the God of Israel is over them from above.