Ezekiel:1:4-25

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* And I saw , and behold , a storm –wind came out of the north , a great cloud , and a flaming fire , and a brightness was on it round about ; and out of the midst of it was like the glitter of amber , out of the midst of the fire . * And out of the midst thereof 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 the glitter of burnished copper . * And hands of man from beneath their wings on their four sides : and their faces and their wings on all these four . * Their wings were joined one to the other : they turned not about in their going ; they went every one in the direction of one of their faces . * And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man ; and the face of a lion , on the right side for all four of them ; and the face of an ox on the left side for all four of them ; and the face of an eagle for all four of them . * Thus were their faces : and their wings were spread out upward ; every one had two joined one to another , and two covered their bodies . * And they went every one in the direction of one of his faces : whither the spirit was directed to go , they went ; they turned not about in their going . * As for the likeness of the living creatures , their appearance was like coals of fire , burning as with the appearance of torches ; this it was which passed along between the living creatures : and a brightness was about the fire , and out of the fire went forth lightning . * And the living creatures ran backward and forward like the appearance of a flash of lightning . * And I looked on the living creatures , and , behold , there was one wheel upon the earth close by the living creatures , by their four front faces . * The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color of a chrysolite ; and all four had one likeness : and their appearance and their work was as though it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel . * Toward their four sides they went in their going : they turned not round in their going . * As for their circumferences , they were so high that they excited fear : and their felloes were full of eyes round about on all these four . * And when the living creatures went , the wheels went near to them : and when the living creatures lifted themselves up from the earth , the wheels lifted themselves up . * Whithersoever the spirit was to go , they went ; thither was spirit to go : and the wheels lifted themselves up at the same time with them ; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels . * When those went , these went ; and when those stood , these stood ; and when those lifted themselves up from the earth , the wheels lifted themselves up at the same time with them ; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels . * And the likeness of a vault was over the head of the living creatures , like the glitter of the purest crystal , stretched forth over their heads above . * And under the vault their wings were straight , the one toward the other : every one had two , which covered them , and every one had two , which covered them ,–– their bodies . * And I heard the sound of their wings , like the sound of great waters , as the voice of the Almighty , when they went , the sound of speech , as the noise of an army : when they stood still , they let down their wings . * And there was a voice from the vault that was over their head : when they stood still , they let down their wings .

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