17. The beings could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved.
18. The rims of the four wheels were tall and frightening, and they were covered with eyes all around.
19. When the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. When they flew upward, the wheels went up, too.
20. The spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. So wherever the spirit went, the wheels and the living beings also went.
21. When the beings moved, the wheels moved. When the beings stopped, the wheels stopped. When the beings flew upward, the wheels rose up, for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.
22. Spread out above them was a surface like the sky, glittering like crystal.
23. Beneath this surface the wings of each living being stretched out to touch the others’ wings, and each had two wings covering its body.