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¹ And it comes to pass, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], on the fifth of the month, and I [am] in the midst of the expulsion by the river Chebar, the heavens have been opened, and I see visions of God.² In the fifth of the month—it is the fifth year of the expulsion of King Jehoiachin—³ the word of YHWH has certainly been to Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar, and there is on him there a hand of YHWH.

⁴ And I look, and behold, a turbulent wind is coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire catching itself, and brightness to it all around, and out of its midst as the color of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.⁵ And out of its midst [is] a likeness of four living creatures, and this [is] their appearance; a likeness of man [is] to them,⁶ and each had four faces and each of them had four wings,⁷ and their feet [are] straight feet, and the sole of their feet [is] as a sole of a calf's foot, and they are sparkling as the color of bright bronze;⁸ and on their four sides [each had] hands of man under their wings; and [each] of the four had their faces and their wings;⁹ their wings [are] joining to one another, they do not turn around in their going, they each go straight forward.¹⁰ As for the likeness of their faces, [each had] the face of a man, and toward the right the four had the face of a lion, and on the left the four had the face of an ox, and the four had the face of an eagle.¹¹ And their faces and their wings dividing from above, of each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.¹² And they each go straight forward, to where the Spirit is to go, they go, they do not turn around in their going.¹³ As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances [are] as coals of fire—burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness [is] to the fire, and lightning is going forth out of the fire.¹⁴ And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.

¹⁵ And I see the living creatures, and behold, one wheel [is] in the earth, near the living creatures, at its four faces.¹⁶ The appearance of the wheels and their works [is] as the color of beryl, and the four of them had one likeness, and their appearances and their works [are] as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.¹⁷ On their four sides, in their going they go, they do not turn around in their going.¹⁸ As for their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings, of the four of them, [are] full of eyes around them.¹⁹ And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, the wheels are lifted up.²⁰ To where the Spirit is to go, they go, there the Spirit [is] to go, and the wheels are lifted up alongside them, for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.²¹ In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and in their being lifted up from off the earth, the wheels are lifted up alongside them; for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.²² And over the heads of the living creatures—a likeness of an expanse, as the color of the fearful ice, stretched out over their heads from above.²³ And under the expanse their wings [are] straight, one toward [its] sister; two [wings] of each are covering them, and two [wings] of each are covering their bodies.²⁴ And I hear the noise of their wings, as the noise of many waters, as the noise of the Mighty One, in their going—the noise of tumult, as the noise of a camp, in their standing they let their wings fall.²⁵ And there is a voice from above the expanse, that [is] above their head: in their standing they let their wings fall.

²⁶ And above the expanse that [is] over their head, as an appearance of a sapphire stone, [is] the likeness of a throne, and on the likeness of the throne a likeness, as the appearance of man on it from above.²⁷ And I see as the color of electrum, as the appearance of fire all around within it, from the appearance of His loins and upward; and from the appearance of His loins and downward, I have seen as the appearance of fire, and brightness [is] all around Him.²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain, so [is] the appearance of the brightness all around.