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 Eze 1:1 |
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions [fn] of God. |
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Eze 1:2 |
On the fifth day of the month, which was in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's captivity, |
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Eze 1:3 |
the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans [fn] by the River Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was upon him there. |
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Eze 1:4 |
Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness [was] all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. |
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Eze 1:5 |
Also from within it [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. |
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Eze 1:6 |
Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings. |
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Eze 1:7 |
Their legs [were] straight, and the soles of their feet [were] like the soles of calves' feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze. |
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Eze 1:8 |
The hands of a man [were] under their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings. |
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Eze 1:9 |
Their wings touched one another. [The creatures] did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward. |
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Eze 1:10 |
As for the likeness of their faces, [each] had the face of a man; each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, each of the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and each of the four had the face of an eagle. |
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Eze 1:11 |
Thus [were] their faces. Their wings stretched upward; two [wings] of each one touched one another, and two covered their bodies. |
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Eze 1:12 |
And each one went straight forward; they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went. |
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Eze 1:13 |
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches going back and forth among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and out of the fire went lightning. |
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Eze 1:14 |
And the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash of lightning. |
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Eze 1:15 |
Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel [was] on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces. |
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Eze 1:16 |
The appearance of the wheels and their workings [was] like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings [was], as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. |
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Eze 1:17 |
When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went. |
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Eze 1:18 |
As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims [were] full of eyes, all around the four of them. |
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Eze 1:19 |
When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. |
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Eze 1:20 |
Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, [because] there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures [fn] [was] in the wheels. |
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Eze 1:21 |
When those went, [these] went; when those stood, [these] stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures [fn] [was] in the wheels. |
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Eze 1:22 |
The likeness of the firmament above the heads of the living creatures [fn] [was] like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads. |
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Eze 1:23 |
And under the firmament their wings [spread out] straight, one toward another. Each one had two which covered one side, and each one had two which covered the other side of the body. |
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Eze 1:24 |
When they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a tumult like the noise of an army; and when they stood still, they let down their wings. |
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Eze 1:25 |
A voice came from above the firmament that [was] over their heads; whenever they stood, they let down their wings. |
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Eze 1:26 |
And above the firmament over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne [was] a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it. |
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Eze 1:27 |
Also from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw, as it were, the color of amber with the appearance of fire all around within it; and from the appearance of His waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearance of fire with brightness all around. |
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Eze 1:28 |
Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so [was] the appearance of the brightness all around it. This [was] the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. So when I saw [it], I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking. |
NKJV Footnotes:
- (1:1) Following Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Vulgate; Syriac and Targum read a vision.
- (1:3) Or Babylonians, and so elsewhere in this book
- (1:20-21) Literally living creature; Septuagint and Vulgate read spirit of life; Targum reads creatures.
- (1:22) Following Septuagint, Targum, and Vulgate; Masoretic Text reads living creature.
