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Ezekiel - ch 1 v 1 - 20
- Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth `month', in the fifth `day' of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
- In the fifth `day' of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
- the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him.
- And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
- And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
- And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
- And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.
- And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings `thus':
- their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
- As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.
- And their faces and their wings were separate above; two `wings' of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
- And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.
- As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: `the fire' went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
- And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
- Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces thereof.
- The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.
- When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.
- As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.
- And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
- Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went; thither was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
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