Ezekiel 10:9–17

⁹I looked, and I saw beside the cherubim four wheels, one beside each of the cherubim; the wheels sparkled like topaz.^{p 10}As for their appearance, the four of them looked alike; each was like a wheel intersecting a wheel. ¹¹As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the cherubim faced; the wheels did not turn about^b as the cherubim went. The cherubim went in whatever direction the head faced, without turning as they went. ¹²Their entire bodies, including their backs, their hands and their wings, were completely full of eyes,^q as were their four wheels.^{r 13}I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.” ¹⁴Each of the cherubim^s had four faces:^t One face was that of a cherub, the second the face of a human being, the third the face of a lion,^u and the fourth the face of an eagle.^v

¹⁵Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures^w I had seen by the Kebar River.^{x 16}When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not leave their side. ¹⁷When the cherubim stood still, they also stood still; and when the cherubim rose, they rose with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in them.^y