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Ezekiel 1:27b

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1:27I saw an amber glow47 like a fire enclosed all around48 from his waist up. From his waist down I saw something that looked like fire. There was a brilliant light around it,

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Footnotes

  1. 48 The lacks this phrase. Its absence from the may be explained as a case of haplography resulting from homoioteleuton, skipping from כְּמַרְאֵה (kémar’eh) to מִמַּרְאֵה (mimmar’eh). On the other hand, the presents a much more balanced verse structure when it is recognized that the final words of this verse belong in the next sentence.

Cross references

  1. 47 See Ezek 1:4.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

From what seemed to be his waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire enclosing it all around. From what seemed to be his waist down, I also saw what looked like fire. There was a brilliant light all around him.

NLTNew Living Translation

From what appeared to be his waist up, he looked like gleaming amber, flickering like a fire. And from his waist down, he looked like a burning flame, shining with splendor.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And I saw something like the outward appearance of amber, something like the appearance of fire, with a covering around it, from the likeness of his loins and upward. And from the likeness of his loins and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and it was radiant all around.

KJV 1900King James Version

And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.