Ezekiel 1:5–21

⁵Within it there were figures resembling ^afour living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human ^bform.

⁶Each of them had ^afour faces and ^bfour wings.

⁷Their legs were straight and ¹their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they gleamed like ^aburnished bronze.

⁸Under their wings on their ^afour sides were human ^bhands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

⁹their wings touched one another; their faces did ^anot turn when they moved, each ^bwent straight forward.

¹⁰As 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 all four had the face of an eagle.

¹¹Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and ^atwo covering their bodies.

¹²And ^aeach went straight forward; ^bwherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

¹³¹In 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.

¹⁴And the living beings ^aran to and fro like bolts of ^blightning.

¹⁵Now 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.

¹⁶The ^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.

¹⁷Whenever they ¹moved, they moved in any of their four ²directions without ^aturning as they moved.

¹⁸As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were ^afull of eyes round about.

^19aWhenever the living beings ¹moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings ^brose from the earth, the wheels rose also.

^20aWherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction¹. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living ²beings was in the wheels.

^21aWhenever 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.