◄ Ezekiel 1:12 ►
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Good News Translation
Each creature faced all four directions, and so the group could go wherever they wished, without having to turn.

New Revised Standard Version
Each moved straight ahead; wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went.

Contemporary English Version
The four living creatures went wherever the Spirit led them, and they moved together without turning their bodies, because each creature faced straight ahead.

New American Bible
Each went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they went; they did not change direction when they moved.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.

they went every

Ezekiel 1:9,17 And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward. . . .

Ezekiel 10:22 And as to the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces which I had seen by the river Chobar, and their looks, and the impulse of every one to go straight forward.

whither

Ezekiel 1:20,21 Withersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the wheels. . . .

Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who shall receive the inheritance of salvation?

Context
The Four Living Creatures
…11And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies: 12And every one of them went straight forward: whither the impulse of the spirit was to go, thither they went: and they turned not when they went.13And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like that of burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. This was the vision running to and fro in the midst of the living creatures, a bright fire, and lightning going forth from the fire.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 1:9
And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.

Ezekiel 1:17
When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.

Ezekiel 1:20
Withersoever the spirit went, thither as the spirit went the wheels also were lifted up withal, and followed it: for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

Ezekiel 1:11
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