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Ezekiel 1:12-20 Amplified Bible (AMP)

12. And they went every one straight forward; wherever the spirit would go, they went, and they turned not when they went.

13. In the midst of the living creatures there was what looked like burning coals of fire, like torches moving to and fro among the living creatures; the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning.

14. And the living creatures darted back and forth like a flash of lightning.

15. Now as I was still looking at the living creatures, I saw one wheel upon the ground beside each of the living creatures with its four faces.

16. As to the appearance of the wheels and their construction: in appearance they gleamed like chrysolite; and the four were formed alike, and their construction work was as it were a wheel within a wheel.

17. When they went, they went in one of their four directions without turning [for they were faced that way].

18. As for their rims, they were so high that they were dreadful, and the four had their rims full of eyes round about.

19. And 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.

20. Wherever the spirit went, the creatures went and the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit or life of the [four living creatures acting as one] living creature was in the wheels.