Ezekiel 1:9

Bible in Basic English

They went without turning, every one went straight forward.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their wings were touching. The creatures did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

Hebrew Names Version
their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when they went; they went everyone straight forward.

King James Version
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

English Standard Version
their wings touched one another. Each one of them went straight forward, without turning as they went.

New American Standard Bible
their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.

New Century Version
and their wings touched each other. The living creatures did not turn when they moved, but each went straight ahead.

Amplified Bible
their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.

World English Bible
their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when they went; they went everyone straight forward.

Geneva Bible (1587)
They where ioyned by their wings one to another, and when they went forth, they returned not, but euery one went streight forward.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.

Legacy Standard Bible
their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn as they went; each went straight forward.

Berean Standard Bible
and their wings were touching one another. They did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

Contemporary English Version
The four creatures were standing back to back with the tips of their wings touching. They moved together in every direction, without turning their bodies.

Complete Jewish Bible
they touched one another with their wings; they did not turn when they moved, but each one moved straight forward;

Darby Translation
their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

Easy-to-Read Version
The wings touched each other. The living beings did not turn when they moved. They went in the direction they were looking.

George Lamsa Translation
Their wings were joined one to another; and when they went, they went straight forward; they turned not when they went.

Good News Translation
Two wings of each creature were spread out so that the creatures formed a square, with their wing tips touching. When they moved, they moved as a group without turning their bodies.

Lexham English Bible
their wings were touching one another; each of them went straight forward, without turning right or left.

Literal Translation
joining each one to the other by their wings. They did not turn in their going, each one went toward the front of their face.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yet were the wynges so, that one euer touched another. When they wente, they turned them not aboute: but ech one wente straight forwarde.

American Standard Version
their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

King James Version (1611)
Their wings were ioyned one to another, they turned not when they went: they went euery one straight forward.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Their wynges were ioyned one to another: when they went they looked not backe, but eche one went straight forwarde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the faces of them four turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward.

English Revised Version
their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the wyngis of tho weren ioyned togidir of oon to another. Tho turneden not ayen, whanne tho yeden, but eche yede bifore his face.

Update Bible Version
their wings were joined one to another; they did not turn when they went; they went every one straight forward.

Webster's Bible Translation
Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

New English Translation
their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead.

New King James Version
Their wings touched one another. The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward.

New Living Translation
The wings of each living being touched the wings of the beings beside it. Each one moved straight forward in any direction without turning around.

New Life Bible
their wings touched one another. Their faces did not turn when they moved. Each one moved straight ahead.

New Revised Standard
their wings touched one another; each of them moved straight ahead, without turning as they moved.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
joined to each other, were their wings, - they turned not when they went, each one straight before him, did they go;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.

Revised Standard Version
their wings touched one another; they went every one straight forward, without turning as they went.

Young's Literal Translation
joining one unto another [are] their wings, they turn not round in their going, each straight forward they go.

Contextual Overview

⁴ And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum. ⁵ And in the heart of it were the forms of four living beings. And this was what they were like; they had the form of a man. ⁶ And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings. ⁷ And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass. ⁸ And they had the hands of a man under their wings; the four of them had faces on their four sides. ⁹ They went without turning, every one went straight forward. ¹⁰ As for the form of their faces, they had the face of a man, and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four of them had the face of an eagle. ¹¹ 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. ¹² Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning. ¹³ And between the living beings it was like burning coals of fire, as if flames were going one after the other between the living beings; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went thunder-flames.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

joined: Ezekiel 1:11, 2 Chronicles 3:11, 2 Chronicles 3:12, 1 Corinthians 1:10

they turned: Ezekiel 1:12, Ezekiel 10:11, Ezekiel 10:22, Proverbs 4:25-27, Luke 9:51, Luke 9:62

Reciprocal: Isaiah 6:2 - wings Ezekiel 1:17 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:5
Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:6
And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

Genesis 1:8
And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Genesis 1:9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

Genesis 1:11
And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

Genesis 1:28
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

Genesis 1:29
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:

Job 26:7
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their wings [were] joined one to another,.... "A woman to her sister" n, in the Hebrew; denoting the concord, harmony, and agreement of Gospel ministers, and their affection to one another; they preach the same Gospel; administer the same ordinances; do the same work of the Lord; have the same zeal for the glory of God; the same love for Christ, and affection for the souls of men; are of the same mind and judgment, and help each other in the service of the Lord; and especially so it will be in the latter day glory, when the watchmen shall see eye to eye, Isaiah 52:8;

they turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward; they go not into the path of error and immorality; they do not become apostates from the truth; they are not of them that draw back unto perdition; they go on in the course of their ministry straightforward; let what will be in their way, nothing diverts them from it; notwithstanding all difficulties and discouragements in themselves; reproaches, afflictions, and persecutions from men; and the temptations of Satan; Isaiah 52:8- :.

n אשה אל אחותה "foemina adsororem suam", Montanus, Polanus; "vira, [sive] mulier ad sociam suam", so some in Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Two of the wings were in the act of flying, so stretched out that the extremity of each touched a wing of a neighboring living creature, similarly stretched out. This was only when they were in motion. See Ezekiel 1:24.

They went every one straight forward - The four together formed a square, and never altered their relative position. From each side two faces looked straight out, one at each corner - and so all moved together toward any of the four quarters, toward which each one had one of its four faces directed; in whatsoever direction the whole moved the four might be said all to go “straight forward.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 1:9. Their wings were joined one to another — When their wings were extended, they formed a sort of canopy level with their own heads or shoulders; and on this canopy was the throne, and the "likeness of the man" upon it, Ezekiel 1:26.

They turned not when they went — The wings did not flap in flying, or move in the manner of oars, or of the hands of a man in swimming, in order to their passing through the air; as they glided in reference to their feet, so they soared in reference to their wings.