Yehezkiel 5:1

5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ¹  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ²  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

Yehezkiel 1:16

1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their construction ³  was like gleaming jasper, ⁴  and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel. ⁵ 

[5:1]  ¹ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[5:1]  ² tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”

[1:16]  ³ tc This word is omitted from the LXX.

[1:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “Tarshish stone.” The meaning of this term is uncertain. The term has also been translated “topaz” (NEB); “beryl” (KJV, NASB, NRSV); or “chrysolite” (RSV, NIV).

[1:16]  ⁵ tn Or “like a wheel at right angles to another wheel.” Some envision concentric wheels here, while others propose “a globe-like structure in which two wheels stand at right angles” (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:33-34). The description given in v. 17 favors the latter idea.