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Chapter 1 |
| 1 | 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 Chebar, that the heavens were
opened, and I saw visions of God. |
| 2 | In the fifth day of the month,
which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, |
| 3 | The word
of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the
land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there
upon him. |
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| 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 out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of
the fire. |
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| Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four
living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a
man. |
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And every one had four faces, and every one had four
wings. |
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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 colour of
burnished brass. |
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8 | And they had the hands of a man under their wings on
their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. |
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Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they
went every one straight forward. |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | 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. |
| 12 | And they went every one straight forward:
whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they
went. |
| 13 |
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. |
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14 | And the living creatures ran and
returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. |
| 15 | Now as I
beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living
creatures, with his four faces. |
| 16 | The appearance of the wheels
and their work was like unto the colour 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. |
| 17 | When they went, they went upon their four
sides: and they turned not when they went. |
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18 | As for their rings,
they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes
round about them four. |
| 19 | 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. |
| 20 | 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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| When those went, these went; and when those stood, these
stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up
over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels. |
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| And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the
living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over
their heads above. |
| 23 | And under the firmament were their wings
straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this
side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
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| 24 | And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of
great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise
of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. |
| 25 | And there
was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and
had let down their wings. |
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26 | And above the firmament that was over
their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire
stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance
of a man above upon it. |
| 27 | And I saw as the colour of amber, as the
appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even
upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were
the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about. |
| 28 | As the
appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the
appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the
likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and
I heard a voice of one that spake. |
