The first angels in the book of Genesis were Cherubim that guarded the garden so that no human could enter again. Cherubim is plural for cherub. The King James Version adds an "s" to cherubims to let us English speakers know that it is plural.
Cherbim were a special class of angels represented in different places and in different ways in the Bible. They were usually more important than the common class angels that we are used to hearing about and that are represented in the rest of Genesis. The Bible and other Hebrew literature is filled with a whole lot of different levels of angels, many levels of which are not clear to us today.
In the temple of Israel, God was said to live between the two golden cherubim and in heaven they are intimately connected to the presence of God.
Our first mention of angels in Genesis tells us that God used these "angels that cover," the angels that were intimately connected to his presence - he used those angels to watch over the garden to protect it from being entered again.
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