Exo 37:9 | NET2full | STEP | The cherubim were spreading their wings upward , overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings . The cherubim faced each other , looking toward the atonement lid .

Exodus 37:9

9 The cherubim were spreading their wings ^{▼▼tn The construction is a participle in construct followed by the genitive “wings”—“spreaders of wings.”} upward, overshadowing the atonement lid with their wings. The cherubim ^{▼▼tn The subject, “the cherubim,” has been added again in the translation for smoothness.} faced each other, ^{▼▼tn Heb “and their faces a man to his brother.”} looking toward the atonement lid. ^{▼▼tn Heb “to the atonement lid were the faces of the cherubim.”}