⁹And I saw, and look, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub,^s and the appearance of the wheels was like the outward appearance of turquoise stone.^t ¹⁰Their appearance^u was the same for each of the four of them,^v as if the wheel was in the midst of a wheel. ¹¹When they went^w to the four of their directions that they went, they did not change direction when they went,^x for the place to which the head^y turned, they went behind him; they did not change direction at their going. ¹²And their whole body,^z and their rims, and their spokes, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around—the wheels for the four of them.^a ¹³Concerning the wheels, he was calling them “the wheelwork” in my hearing.^b ¹⁴And each one had four faces;^c the face of the one was the face of a cherub, and the face of the second was the face of a human, and the face of the third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle.

¹⁵And the cherubim rose; that is, the living creatures^d that I saw at the Kebar River.^e ¹⁶And when the cherubim went,^f the wheels beside them went; and when the cherubim lifted their wings to rise up from the earth,^g the wheels also did not turn aside from beside them. ¹⁷When they stood,^h they stood, and at their rising, they rose with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

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Footnotes

sLiterally “wheel one beside the cherub one, and wheel one beside the cherub one”
tLiterally “stone of turquoise”
uThat is, of the wheels
vLiterally “likeness one was for the four of them”
wLiterally “In their going”
xLiterally “At their going”
yOr “first” or “lead wheel”
zLiterally “the whole of their body”
aLiterally “for the four of them their wheels”
bLiterally “in my ears”
cLiterally “four faces were to each”
dHebrew “creature”
eLiterally “river of Kebar”
fLiterally “at the going of the cherubim”
gLiterally “and at the lifting of the cherubim wings their to rise from on the earth”
hLiterally “at their standing”