Ezekiel 1:5–21

⁵In the middle of it was something like four living creatures. This was their appearance: they were of human form.^{* 6}Each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.^{* 7}Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot, and they sparkled like burnished bronze.^{* 8}Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus:^{* 9}their wings touched one another; each of them moved straight ahead, without turning as they moved. ¹⁰As for the appearance of their faces: the four had the face of a human being, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle;^{* 11}such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.^{* 12}Each moved straight ahead; wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went. ¹³In the middle of^a the living creatures there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches moving to and fro among the living creatures; the fire was bright, and lightning issued from the fire.^{* 14}The living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning.^*

¹⁵As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.^{b* 16}As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl, and the four had the same form, their construction being something like a wheel within a wheel.^{* 17}When they moved, they moved in any of the four directions without veering as they moved.^{* 18}Their rims were tall and awesome, for the rims of all four were full of eyes all around.^{* 19}When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.^{* 20}Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for a living spirit was in the wheels.^{* 21}When they moved, the others moved; when they stopped, the others stopped; and when they rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them, for a living spirit was in the wheels.^*