Ezekiel:1

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* 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 . * In the fifth day of the month , which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachins captivity , * 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 . * And I looked , and , behold , a whirlwind ruwach # 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 . * Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures . And this was their appearance mar #eh #; 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 calfs foot : and they sparkled like the colour 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 s @mo #wl #; they four also had the face of an eagle . * Thus were their faces : and their wings were stretched upward ma #al #; 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 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 . * When they went , they went upon their four sides : and they turned not when they went . * As for their rings , they were so high that they were dreadful yir #ah #; and their rings were full of eyes round about 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 . * 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 . * 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 ma #al #. * 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 . * 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 . * And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads ro #sh #, when they stood , and had let down their wings . * 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 . * 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 ma #al #, and from the appearance of his loins even downward , I saw as it were the appearance of fire , and it had brightness round about . * 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 .

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