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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 of Kebar, 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 the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Kebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
- And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and from the midst of it as the color of amber, from the midst of the fire.
- Also from the midst of it 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 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 the color of 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.
- 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 four had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
- Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; 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; and they turned not when they went.
- As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it 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 by the living creatures, with his four faces.
- The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
- When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they returned not when they went.
- As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes around them four.
- And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by 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 their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
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