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Ezekiel 1

The Vision of Four Figures

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Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the  ariver Chebar among the exiles, the  bheavens were opened and I saw  1 cvisions of God.

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(On the fifth of the month  1in the  afifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile,

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the  aword of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the  bland of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there  cthe hand of the LORD came upon him.)

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As I looked, behold, a  astorm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like  bglowing metal in the midst of the fire.

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Within it there were figures resembling  afour living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human  bform.

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Each of them had  afour faces and  bfour wings.

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Their legs were straight and  1their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they gleamed like  aburnished bronze.

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Under their wings on their  afour sides were human  bhands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

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their wings touched one another; their faces did  anot turn when they moved, each  bwent straight forward.

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As for the  aform of their faces, each had the  bface of a man;  1all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and  1all four had the face of an eagle.

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Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and  atwo covering their bodies.

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And  aeach went straight forward;  bwherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

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 1In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of  afire,  2like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was  3flashing from the fire.

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And the living beings  aran to and fro like bolts of  blightning.

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Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one  awheel on the earth beside the living beings,  1for each of the four of them.

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The  aappearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like  1sparkling  bberyl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if  2one wheel were within another.

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Whenever they  1moved, they  1moved in any of their four  2directions without  aturning as they  1moved.

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As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were  afull of eyes round about.

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 aWhenever the living beings  1moved, the wheels  1moved with them. And whenever the living beings  brose from the earth, the wheels rose also.

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 aWherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction 1. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living  2beings was in the wheels.

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 aWhenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living  1beings was in the wheels.

Vision of Divine Glory

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Now  aover the heads of the living  1beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of  2crystal, spread out over their heads.

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Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had  atwo wings covering its body on the one side and on the other.

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I also heard the sound of their wings like the  asound of abundant waters as they went, like the  bvoice of  1the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the  csound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

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And there came a voice from above the  aexpanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

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Now  aabove the expanse that was over their heads there was something  bresembling a throne, like  1 clapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a  dman.

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Then I  1noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something  alike  2glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.

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As the appearance of the  arainbow  1in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the  bglory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I  cfell on my face and heard a voice speaking.



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