When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn’t turn when they went.
Parallel translations
- KJV When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
- BSB As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.
- ESV When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.
- NKJV When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went.
- NASB Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.
- NLT The beings could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved.
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Cross-references · 4
- Ezek 1:9their wings were joined to one another; they didn’t turn when they went; each one went straight forward.
- Ezek 1:12Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn’t turn when they went.
- Ezek 10:1–11Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
- Isa 55:11so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
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