1. And it was in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, and I was in the midst of the exiles by the Kebar River. The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2. On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of the king Jehoiachin—
3. the word of Yahweh came clearly to Ezekiel the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans at the Kebar River, and the hand of Yahweh was on him there.
4. And I looked, and look! A storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire flashing back and forth, and brightness around and within it, and from its midst it was like the outward appearance of amber stone from the midst of the fire.
5. And from its midst was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance: a human form,
6. and each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.
7. And their legs were straight legs, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of the foot of a calf, and they were sparkling like the outward appearance of polished bronze.
8. And under their wings were human hands on their four sides. And their faces and their wings for the four of them were as follows:
9. their wings were touching one another; each of them went straight forward, without turning right or left.
10. The likeness of their faces was the face of a human in front, and the face of a lion on the right of each of them, and the face of an ox on the left of each of them, and the face of an eagle for each of them.
11. So were their faces; their wings were spread out upward; each had two touching one another and two covering their bodies.