Ezekiel 10

¹ I looked, and there above the expanse over the heads of the cherubim appeared something like a sapphire stone, with the appearance of a throne, above them.

² He said to the man dressed in linen, “Go in among the wheels, beneath the cherub, fill your hands with fiery coals from among the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in while I watched.

³ The cherubim were standing on the right side of the house when the man went in, and the cloud filled the inner courtyard.

⁴ The glory of the LORD rose from above the cherub to the threshold of the house; the house was filled with the cloud, and the courtyard was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.

⁵ The sound of the cherubim’s wings could be heard as far as the outer courtyard, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.

⁶ When he commanded the man dressed in linen, “Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel.

⁷ Then one cherub reached out his hand from among the cherubim toward the fire among them, took some of it, and placed it in the hands of the man dressed in linen. He received it and went out.

⁸ A human hand appeared beneath the wings of the cherubim.

⁹ I looked, and there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. The wheels looked like the gleam of beryl.

¹⁰ All four had the same appearance, as if one wheel were inside another.

¹¹ When they moved, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they moved. They followed whichever way the head faced, without turning as they moved.

¹² Their whole bodies, their backs, their hands, and their wings, as well as the wheels, were full of eyes all around—the wheels of all four.

¹³ I heard the wheels being called “Wheel.”

¹⁴ Each had four faces: the first was the face of a cherub, the second the face of a human, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

¹⁵ The cherubim rose up. They were the living creature I had seen by the Kebar River.

¹⁶ When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them. When the cherubim lifted their wings to rise from the earth, the wheels did not move away from their side.

¹⁷ When the cherubim stood still, the wheels stood still; when the cherubim rose, the wheels rose with them, because the spirit of the living creature was in them.

¹⁸ The glory of the LORD left the threshold of the house and stopped above the cherubim.

¹⁹ The cherubim lifted their wings and rose from the earth before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. They stopped at the entrance of the eastern gate of the LORD’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

²⁰ They were the living creature I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Kebar River, and I knew they were cherubim.

²¹ Each had four faces and four wings, and beneath their wings was something like human hands.

²² Their faces had the same appearance as the faces I had seen by the Kebar River. Their appearance was the same, and they themselves were the same. Each went straight ahead.

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