Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
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 Eze 1:1 |
Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw [fn]visions of God. |
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Eze 1:2 |
(On the fifth of the month [fn]in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile, |
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Eze 1:3 |
the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.) |
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Eze 1:4 |
As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire. |
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Eze 1:5 |
Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form. |
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Eze 1:6 |
Each of them had four faces and four wings. |
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Eze 1:7 |
Their legs were straight and [fn]their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze. |
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Eze 1:8 |
Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, |
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Eze 1:9 |
their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward. |
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Eze 1:10 |
As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; [fn]all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and [fn]all four had the face of an eagle. |
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Eze 1:11 |
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies. |
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Eze 1:12 |
And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went. |
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Eze 1:13 |
[fn]In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, [fn]like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was [fn]flashing from the fire. |
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Eze 1:14 |
And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning. |
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Eze 1:15 |
Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, [fn]for each of the four of them. |
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Eze 1:16 |
The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like [fn]sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if [fn]one wheel were within another. |
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Eze 1:17 |
Whenever they [fn]moved, they [fn]moved in any of their four [fn]directions without turning as they [fn]moved. |
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Eze 1:18 |
As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about. |
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Eze 1:19 |
Whenever the living beings [fn]moved, the wheels [fn]moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also. |
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Eze 1:20 |
Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction [fn]. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living [fn]beings was in the wheels. |
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Eze 1:21 |
Whenever 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 [fn]beings was in the wheels. |
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Eze 1:22 |
Now over the heads of the living [fn]beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of [fn]crystal, spread out over their heads. |
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Eze 1:23 |
Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other. |
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Eze 1:24 |
I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of [fn]the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. |
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Eze 1:25 |
And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. |
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Eze 1:26 |
Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne, like [fn]lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man. |
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Eze 1:27 |
Then I [fn]noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like [fn]glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him. |
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Eze 1:28 |
As the appearance of the rainbow [fn]in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking. |
NASB Footnotes:
- (1:1) Some ancient mss and versions read a vision
- (1:2) Literally: it was
- (1:7) Literally: the soles of their feet
- (1:10) Literally: the four of them
- (1:13) So with some ancient versions; Heb as the likeness of the living beings
- (1:13) Literally: like the appearance of
- (1:13) Literally: coming out
- (1:15) Literally: for his four faces
- (1:16) Literally: the look of beryl
- (1:16) Literally: the wheel in the midst of the wheel
- (1:17) Literally: went
- (1:17) Literally: sides
- (1:19) Literally: went
- (1:20) M.T. adds the spirit to go
- (1:20) M.T. reads being
- (1:21) M.T. reads being
- (1:22) So some ancient mss and versions; M.T. reads being
- (1:22) Or, ice
- (1:24) Hebrew: Shaddai
- (1:26) Hebrew: eben-sappir
- (1:27) Literally: saw
- (1:27) Or, electrum
- (1:28) Literally: which occurs in
