their whole body Lit. flesh, a strange term to be used of the living creatures. LXX. omits. The word "backs" is used of the felloes of the wheels in ch. Ezekiel 1:18, and in this verse the living creatures and the wheels are confused together.

wheels that they four had More naturally: even their four wheels, lit. even they four, their wheels, where "they" anticipates "wheels."

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