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The cherubim were spreading their wings[a] upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim[b] faced each other,[c] looking toward the atonement lid.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 37:9 tn The construction is a participle in construct followed by the genitive “wings”—“spreaders of wings.”
  2. Exodus 37:9 tn The subject, “the cherubim,” has been added again in the translation for smoothness.
  3. Exodus 37:9 tn Heb “and their faces a man to his brother.”
  4. Exodus 37:9 tn Heb “to the atonement lid were the faces of the cherubim.”

The cherubim had their wings spread upward, overshadowing(A) the cover with them. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the cover.(B)

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