Ezekiel 1:5–21

⁵And out of its midst is a likeness of four living creatures, and this is their appearance; a likeness of man is to them, ⁶and four faces are to each, and four wings are to each of them, ⁷and their feet are straight feet, and the sole of their feet is as a sole of a calf’s foot, and they are sparkling as the colour of bright brass; ⁸and hands of man under their wings—on their four sides, and their faces and their wings—are to them four; ⁹joining one unto another are their wings, they turn not round in their going, each straight forward they go. ¹⁰As to the likeness of their faces, the face of a man, and the face of a lion, toward the right are to them four, and the face of an ox on the left are to them four, and the face of an eagle are to them four. ¹¹And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each are two joining together, and two are covering their bodies. ¹²And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going. ¹³As to the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances are as coals of fire—burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness is to the fire, and out of the fire is going forth lightning. ¹⁴And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.

¹⁵And I see the living creatures, and lo, one wheel is in the earth, near the living creatures, at its four faces. ¹⁶The appearance of the wheels and their works is as the colour of beryl, and one likeness is to them four, and their appearances and their works are as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel. ¹⁷On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going. ¹⁸As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings are full of eyes round about them four. ¹⁹And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels. ²⁰Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit is to go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living spirit is in the wheels. ²¹In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and in their being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels over-against them; for a living spirit is in the wheels.