Ezekiel 1:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went.

New Living Translation
The beings could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved.

English Standard Version
When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.

Berean Study Bible
As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

New American Standard Bible
Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.

NASB 1995
Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.

NASB 1977
Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions, without turning as they moved.

Amplified Bible
Whenever they moved, they went in any [one] of their four directions without turning as they moved.

Christian Standard Bible
When they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

Contemporary English Version
so that they could move in any direction without turning.

Good News Translation
so that the wheels could move in any of the four directions.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Whenever they moved, they moved in any of the four directions without turning as they moved.

International Standard Version
Whenever the four moved, no matter which of four directions, they moved without turning around.

NET Bible
When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

New King James Version
When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went.

King James 2000 Bible
When they went, they went in any of four directions: and they turned not when they went.

New Heart English Bible
When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.

World English Bible
When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went.

American King James Version
When they went, they went on their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

American Standard Version
When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.

A Faithful Version
When they went, they went on their four sides; and they did not turn when they moved.

Darby Bible Translation
When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not when they went.

English Revised Version
When they went, they went upon their four sides: they turned not when they went.

Webster's Bible Translation
When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they returned not when they went.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Whe they went, they went vpo their foure sides, and they returned not when they went.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
When they went, they went vpon their foure sides: they returned not backe when they went.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
When one wente forwarde, they wente all foure, and turned the not aboute i their goinge.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
On their four sides, in their going they go, they do not turn around in their going.

Young's Literal Translation
On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.

Smith's Literal Translation
In their going they will go upon their four sides: they will not turn in their going.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
When they went, they went by their four parts: and they turned not when they went.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Going forth, they went by means of their four parts. And they did not turn as they went.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
On their four sides they were going on, and were not turning around, and to the place that their head was turning, to go after it they were going on and they were not turning

Lamsa Bible
When they went, they went upon four sides; and they turned not when they went; and wherever the first one turned to go, the other went after it, and turned not.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
When they went, they went toward their four sides; they turned not when they went.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They went on their four sides: they turned not as they went;
















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