Ezekiel 1:7
Hebrew Bible
5 In the fire were what looked like four living beings. In their appearance they had human form, 6 but each had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight, but the soles of their feet were like calves’ feet. They gleamed like polished bronze. 8 They had human hands under their wings on their four sides. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, 9 their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Ezekiel 1:7
Septuagint
5 And in the middle there was something like the likeness of four living beings, and this was the appearance of them: there was a likeness of a human upon them. 6 And each one had four faces, and each one had four wings; 7 and their legs were straight, and their feet feathered, and sparks were like flashing bronze, and their wings were light in weight. 8 And underneath their wings on their four parts there was a hand of a human, and their four faces 9 did not turn about when they walked. Each one went before their face.
Date: 1st Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... given the profoundly sinister connotations of the 'calf' for ancient Jewish expositors, we may wonder if the deletion of the word egel, and the reading of kap as if it were kanap, was not deliberate. For the 'calf' was the archetype of the idolatry into which Israel had fallen (Exodus 32); and the suggestion of Ezekiel 1:7 (and, to a lesser extent, verse 10), that a token of it was perpetually in the divine presence, verged on the intolerable ..."
Halperin, David J.
Merkabah Midrash in the Septuagint
(pp. 351-363) Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 101, No. 3, 1982
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