Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Upon the right side of these four, their faces were like the face of a man, and the face of a Lion: But upon the left side, they had the face of an ox and the face of an eagle. 11 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. 12 Every one, when it went, it went straight forward. Whereas the spirit led them, thither they went; and turned not about in their going.
Cross References
Isaiah 6:2
From above flickered the Seraphims, whereof every one had six wings: With twain each covered his face, with twain his feet, and with twain did he fly.
Ezekiel 1:23
under the same firmament were their wings laid abroad, one toward another, and two wings covered the body of every beast.
Ezekiel 10:16
Now when the Cherubims went, the wheels went with them; and when the Cherubims shook their wings to lift themselves upward, the wheels remained not behind, but were with them also.
Ezekiel 10:19
And the Cherubims flickered with their wings, and lift themselves up from the earth: so that I saw when they went, and the wheels with them. And they stood at the east side of the port that is in the house of the LORD. So the glory of the LORD was upon them.