Ezekiel 10:9–17

⁹I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim,^ae one wheel beside each cherub. The luster of the wheels was like the gleam of beryl.^{af 10}In appearance, all four looked alike, like a wheel within a wheel. ¹¹When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions,^ag without pivoting as they moved. But wherever the head faced, they would go in that direction, without pivoting as they went. ¹²Their entire bodies,^ah including their backs, hands, wings, and the wheels that the four of them had, were full of eyes all around.^{ai 13}As I listened the wheels were called “the wheelwork.” ¹⁴Each one had four faces:^aj one was the face of a cherub, the second the face of a human, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

¹⁵The cherubim ascended; these were the living creatures I had seen by the Chebar Canal.^{a 16}When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when they lifted their wings to rise from the earth, even then the wheels did not veer away from them. ¹⁷When the cherubim stopped,^b the wheels stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.