Orthodox Jewish Bible

Yechezkel 1:14-20 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

14. And the Chayos ran and returned as the appearance of bazak (a flash of lightning).

15. Now as I beheld the Chayos, hinei there was one Ofan ba'aretz etzel the Chayos, with its four panim.

16. The appearance of the Ofanim and their making was like unto the color of tarshish; and they four had one demut; and their appearance and their making was as it were an Ofan within an Ofan.

17. Arba'at (four) sidedly they went; and they turned not as they went.

18. As for their rims, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rims were mele'ot einayim saviv (full of eyes round about) the four of them.

19. And when the Chayos went, the Ofanim went beside them; and when the Chayos were lifted up from ha'aretz, the Ofanim were lifted up.

20. Whithersoever the Ruach was to go, they went, thither was the Ruach to go; and the Ofanim were lifted facing them; for Ruach HaChayah was in the Ofanim.