Ezekiel 1:9
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.

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

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.

New American Bible
Their faces and their wings looked out on all their four sides; they did not turn when they moved, but each went straight ahead.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

joined

Ezekiel 1:11 And their faces, and their wings were stretched upward: two wings of every one were joined, and two covered their bodies:

2 Chronicles 3:11,12 The wings of the cherubims were extended twenty cubits, so that one wing was five cubits long, and reached to the wall of the house: and the other was also five cubits long, and reached to the wing of the other cherub. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no schisms among you: but that you be perfect in the same mind and in the same judgment.

they turned

Ezekiel 1:12 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.

Ezekiel 10:11,22 And when they went, they went by four ways: and they turned not when they went: but to the place whither they first turned, the rest also followed, and did not turn back. . . .

Proverbs 4:25-27 Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established. . . .

Luke 9:51,62 And it came to pass, when the days of his assumption were accomplishing, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. . . .

Context
The Four Living Creatures
8And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides: and they had faces, and wings on the four sides, 9And the wings of one were joined to the wings of another. They turned not when they went: but every one went straight forward.10And as for the likeness of their faces: there was the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side of all the four: and the face of an ox, on the left side of all the four: and the face of an eagle over all the four.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 1:12
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.

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

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.

Ezekiel 1:8
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