Ezekiel 1:15–21 LEB - And I saw the living…

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Ezekiel 1:15–21

15 And I saw the living creatures, and look! A wheel was on the earthc beside ⌊each of the living creatures that had four faces⌋.d 16 The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like the appearance of beryl,e and ⌊they all looked alike⌋,f and their appearance and their construction was ⌊like a wheel within a wheel⌋.g 17 When they moved, they went toward their four sides; they did not ⌊veer at all as they went⌋.h 18 And their rims ⌊were high and awesome⌋,i and ⌊all four of⌋j their rims were full of eyes all around. 19 And at the going of the living creatures, the wheels next to them also went, and ⌊when the creatures were lifted from the ground⌋k the wheels also rose. 20⌊Wherever⌋l the spirit went they would go there, and the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creaturesm was in the wheels. 21 At theirn going, theyo go, and at their standing, they stood, and at their being lifted up from on the earth,p the wheels rose,q for the spirit of the living creaturesr was in the wheels.

c	Or “ground”
d	Literally “the living creatures for the four of his/its faces.” The LXX has “for the four of them.”
e	Or “chrysolite,” or “topaz”; this stone is difficult to identify exactly
f	Literally “likeness was one for the four of them”
g	Literally “as that it was a wheel in the midst of a wheel”
h	Literally “turn away when they went”
i	Literally “height was for them and awesomeness was for them”
j	Literally “of the four of them”
k	Literally “and at the lifting up of the creatures from the earth”
l	Literally “Toward which”
m	Hebrew “creature”
n	That is, the living creatures
o	That is, the wheels
p	Or “ground”
q	Or “were lifted up”
r	Hebrew “creature”