10. Each living being had four faces. In the front they each had a man’s face. There was a lion’s face on the right side and a bull’s face on the left side. There was an eagle’s face on the back.
11. Their wings were spread out over them. With two of the wings each living being reached out to touch the one near it, and with the other two wings it covered its body.
12. Each living being went in the direction it was looking. They went wherever the spirit caused them to go, but they did not turn when they moved.
13. That is what the living beings looked like. Inside the area between the living beings, there was something that looked like burning coals of fire. This fire was like small torches that kept moving around among the living beings. The fire glowed brightly and lightning flashed from it.
14. The living beings ran back and forth—as fast as lightning.
15-16. I was looking at the living beings when I noticed four wheels that touched the ground. There was one wheel by each living being. All the wheels looked the same. The wheels looked as if they were made from a clear, yellow jewel. They looked like there was a wheel inside a wheel.
17. They could turn to move in any direction. But the living beings did not turn when they moved.
18. The rims of the wheels were tall and frightening. There were eyes all over the rims of all four wheels.
19. The wheels always moved with the living beings. If the living beings went up into the air, the wheels went with them.
20. They went wherever the spirit wanted them to go, and the wheels went with them, because the power that moved the living being was in the wheels.
21. So if the living beings moved, the wheels moved. If the living beings stopped, the wheels stopped. If the wheels went into the air, the living beings went with them, because the spirit was in the wheels.
22. There was an amazing thing over the heads of the living beings. It was like a bowl turned upside down, and the bowl was clear like crystal.