Ezekiel 1:4-28

4 As I looked, behold, a ahigh wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing intermittently and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like bgleaming
Heb uncertain; Gr indicates a gold and silver alloy
metal in the midst of the fire.
5And within it there were figures resembling dfour living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human eform. 6Each of them had ffour faces and gfour wings. 7Their legs were straight and
Lit the sole of their feet
their feet were like a calf’s
Lit sole of a foot
hoof, and they sparkled like jpolished bronze.
8Under their wings on their kfour sides were human lhands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, 9their wings touched one another; their faces did mnot turn when they moved, each nwent straight forward. 10As for the oform of their faces, each had a human pface;
Lit the four of them
all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and
Lit the four of them
all four had the face of an eagle.
11Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and stwo covering their bodies. 12And teach went straight forward; uwherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went. 13
As in some ancient versions; MT And the likeness of the living beings
In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of wfire,
Lit like the appearance of
like torches moving among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was
Lit going out
flashing from the fire.
14And the living beings zran back and forth like bolts of aalightning.

15 Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one abwheel on the ground beside the living beings, for
Lit his four faces
each of the four of them.
16The adappearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like
Or the look of topaz
sparkling aftopaz, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if
Lit the wheel in the midst of the wheel
one wheel were within another.
17Whenever they
Lit went
moved, they
Lit went
moved in any of their four
Lit sides
directions without akturning as they
Lit went
moved.
18As for their rims, they were high and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were
Lit full of
,
ancovered with eyes all around.
19 aoWhenever the living beings
Lit went
moved, the wheels
Lit went
moved with them. And whenever the living beings arrose from the earth, the wheels rose also.
20 asWherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction
MT adds the spirit to go
. And the wheels rose just as they did; for the spirit of the living
MT being
beings was in the wheels.
21 avWhenever those went, they went; and whenever those stopped, they stopped. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose just as they did; for the spirit of the living
MT being
beings was in the wheels.

Vision of Divine Glory

22 Now axover the heads of the living
As in some mss and ancient versions; MT being
beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads.
23Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had aztwo wings covering its body on the one side and on the other. 24And I also heard the sound of their wings, like the basound of abundant waters as they went, like the bbvoice of
Heb Shaddai
the Almighty, a sound of a crowd like the bdsound of an army camp; whenever they stopped, they let down their wings.
25And a voice came from above the beexpanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they let down their wings.

26 Now bfabove the expanse that was over their heads there was something bgresembling a throne, like
Heb eben-sappir
,
bilapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a bjman.
27Then I
Lit saw
noticed from the appearance of His waist and upward something bllike gleaming
See note v 4
metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.
28Like the appearance of the bnrainbow
Lit which occurs in
in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the bpglory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I bqfell on my face and heard a voice speaking.

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