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their pairs of wings overlapped each other. They moved in straight directions without turning their faces around as they moved. 10 The form of their faces was human, but each of the four also had the face of a lion to the right, the face of an ox to the left, and the face of an eagle behind them.[a] 11 That’s what their faces were like. Their wings spread out above and around them, one pair overlapping another, with one pair covering themselves.

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  1. Ezekiel 1:10 The Heb. lacks behind them

and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.(A)

10 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.(B) 11 Such were their faces. They each had two wings(C) spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body.

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