Moff EZE Chapter 1

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1 lt was in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, as I was among the exiles at the river Kebar, that heaven opened and I saw visions of God. 2 [[It was on the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year of king Jehoiakin’s exile, 3 that the word of the Eternal came to the priest Ezekiel the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans, at the river Kebar.]] The hand of the Eternal was on me 4 in a trance, and as I gazed, there was a storm-wind blowing from the north!--a huge cloud with fire flashing out of it, and with a sheen encircling it and issuing from it, the colour of amber. 5 Out of it appeared the forms of four Creatures, and this was their appearance: they had the same form, 6 each with four faces and four wings, 7 with limbs straight and gleaming like burnished bronze, and with the soles of their feet rounded like the feet of calves. 8 Under their wings, on the four sides of them, were human hands. As for their four faces and wings-- 9 their wings touched one another, and their faces never turned as they moved; each moved straight forward. 10 As for the likeness of their faces--all four had in front the face of a man, on the right the face of a lion, on the left the face of a bull, and the face of an eagle at the back. 11 Their wings were stretched out, one pair to touch the next Creature, the other pair to cover the body. 12 Each moved straight forward; wherever the Spirit impelled them to go they went, never turning as they moved. 13 Also, in the middle of the Creatures there was Something moving to and fro, like glowing coals, like torches, 14 a fire that gleamed and flashed out lightning.

15 As I gazed, there was a wheel on the ground beside each of the four Creatures! 16 The wheels were the colour of a topaz, and all four had the same shape, arranged as if one wheel were inside the other. 17 When they moved, they moved in any direction that their four sides faced, never turning as they moved. 18 The felloes and spokes of the four, I saw, were full of eyes all round. 19 Whenever the Creatures moved, the wheels moved with them, and whenever the Creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose with them; 20 wherever the Spirit impelled them to go they went, for a living Spirit was in the wheels. 21 When the Creatures moved, they moved; when the Creatures stood still, they stood still; when the Creatures rose from earth, they rose; for a living Spirit was in these wheels.

22 Above the Creatures there was the semblance of a vault, which looked like crystal, stretching over their heads, 23 and under the vault their wings were level, each with one pair touching the next Creature and one pair covering its body. 24 Whenever they moved, I heard their wings sound like the sound of many waters, like the thunder of the Almighty, the sound of a tumult like the sound of a host; when they stood still, they dropped their wings.

25 Above the vault over their heads 26 was the semblance of a throne, blue like a sapphire, and on the throne-like appearance there was the semblance of a human form; 27 from the waist upwards I saw Something glowing like amber or fire, from the waist downwards there was Something resembling fire, while all around 28 there was a bright halo like the rainbow that appears in the clouds after rain. Such was the appearance of what resembled the Splendour of the Eternal. When I saw it, I fell on my face;

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