◄ Ezekiel 10:9 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like gleaming beryl.

Contemporary English Version
and I saw the four wheels near the creatures. These wheels were shining like chrysolite.

New American Bible
I also saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub, and the wheels appeared to have the sparkle of yellow topaz.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the cherubims: one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was to the sight like the chrysolite stone:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the cherubims: one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was to the sight like the chrysolite stone:

behold

Ezekiel 1:15-17 Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces. . . .

as the

Daniel 10:6 And his body was like the chrysolite, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as a burning lamp: and his arms, and all downward even to the feet, like in appearance to glittering brass: and the voice of his word like the voice of a multitude.

Revelation 21:20 The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the seventh, chrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth, a topaz: the tenth, a chrysoprasus: the eleventh, a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst.

a beryl.

Ezekiel 1:16 And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.

, renders, quasi visio maris, `as the appearance of the seas,' i. e. azure; and Dr. Geddes (on

Exodus 28:10 Six names on one stone, and the other six on the other, according to the order of their birth.

) says, that, with Abarbanel, the believes the beryl to be intended. It is a pellucid gem, called by our lapidaries, aqua marian, of a sea or bluish green colour, found in the East Indies and about the gold mines of Peru. The genuine Beryl never receives any other mixture of colour; and in its perfect state approaches the hardness of garnet.

Context
God's Glory Exits the Temple
…8And there appeared in the cherubims the likeness of a man's hand under their wings. 9And I saw, and behold there were four wheels by the cherubims: one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was to the sight like the chrysolite stone:10And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.…
Cross References
Revelation 21:20
The fifth, sardonyx: the sixth, sardius: the seventh, chrysolite: the eighth, beryl: the ninth, a topaz: the tenth, a chrysoprasus: the eleventh, a jacinth: the twelfth, an amethyst.

Ezekiel 1:15
Now as I beheld the living creatures, there appeared upon the earth by the living creatures one wheel with four faces.

Ezekiel 1:16
And the appearance of the wheels, and the work of them was like the appearance of the sea: and the four had all one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the midst of a wheel.

Ezekiel 10:8
And there appeared in the cherubims the likeness of a man's hand under their wings.

Ezekiel 10:10
And as to their appearance, all four were alike: as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.

Daniel 10:6
And his body was like the chrysolite, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as a burning lamp: and his arms, and all downward even to the feet, like in appearance to glittering brass: and the voice of his word like the voice of a multitude.

Ezekiel 10:8
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