Ezekiel 1:11

Thuswere their faces This rendering is perhaps just possible, particularly if present text in Ezekiel 47:17-19 be accepted (which most scholars, however, alter according to Ezekiel 1:20). The words are rather to be omitted (with LXX.); or "inwards" (penîmah) is to be read for "their faces" (pençhem) with Wellh. and attached to Ezekiel 1:10 the face of an eagle inwards, i. e. towards the centre of the chariot. The same change is required ch. Ezekiel 40:22; Ezekiel 40:26.

wingswere stretched upward Or, and their wings were outstretched above. This was their appearance when in flight; each creature stretched out one pair of wings above, while the other pair covered its body. The wings being expanded horizontally would be nearly on a level with the head of the living creature, hence the "firmament" is said to be over the heads of the living creatures or over their expanded wings (Ezekiel 1:22). The next clause reads literally: everyone(of the living creatures) had two wings joining everyone(of the living creatures to the others). If the text be correct it states somewhat elliptically what is said with more precision in Ezekiel 1:23 (cf. Ezekiel 1:9), viz. that the tips of the expanded wings of one creature touched the tips of the wings of two other creatures, on his right and on his left.