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Ezekiel 10:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. "
Ezekiel 10:21
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19 The cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went out, with the wheels beside them. Then they stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.
21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings. The likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
22 As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.
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Ezekiel 10:1
"Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne."
Ezekiel 10:2
"He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” He went in as I watched."
Ezekiel 10:3
"Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court."
Ezekiel 10:4
"The LORD’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the LORD’s glory."
Ezekiel 10:5
"The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks."
Ezekiel 10:6
"It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside a wheel."
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