Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
11 Two wings of each creature were raised so that they touched the tips of the wings of the creatures next to it, and their other two wings were folded against their bodies.
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Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body.
12 Each creature faced all four directions, and so the group could go wherever they wished, without having to turn.
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Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.
13 Among the creatures there was something that looked like a blazing torch, constantly moving. The fire would blaze up and shoot out flashes of lightning.
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The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
14 The creatures themselves darted back and forth with the speed of lightning.
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The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.
15 As I was looking at the four creatures I saw four wheels touching the ground, one beside each of them.
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As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
16 All four wheels were alike; each one shone like a precious stone, and each had another wheel intersecting it at right angles,
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This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.
17 so that the wheels could move in any of the four directions.
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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.
18 The rims of the wheels were covered with eyes.
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Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
19 Whenever the creatures moved, the wheels moved with them, and if the creatures rose up from the earth, so did the wheels.
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When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.
20 The creatures went wherever they wished, and the wheels did exactly what the creatures did, because the creatures controlled them.
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Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
21 So every time the creatures moved or stopped or rose in the air, the wheels did exactly the same.
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When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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