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And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of human." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:6", "text": "Each had four faces, and each had four wings." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:7", "text": "Their legs were straight; the sole of their foot was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they gleamed like the look of burnished bronze." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:8", "text": "And the hands of human were under their wings on their four sides; and the faces and the wings of the four of them were thus:" },{ "n": 9, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:9", "text": "Their wings were joined one to another; they would not turn as they went; each would go in the direction of its face." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:10", "text": "The likeness of their faces: the face of human, and the face of a lion on the right side for the four of them, and the face of an ox on the left side for the four of them, and the face of an eagle for the four of them." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:11", "text": "Their faces and their wings were separated from above; each had two wings joined to one another, and two covered their bodies." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:12", "text": "Each would go in the direction of its face. Wherever the ruach was about to go, they would go; they would not turn as they went." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:13", "text": "The likeness of the living creatures — their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches; it was moving back and forth among the living creatures, and there was brightness to the fire, and from the fire lightning went forth." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:14", "text": "And the living creatures ran and returned, like the appearance of the flashing of lightning." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:15", "text": "I looked at the living creatures, and behold — one wheel on the land beside the living creatures, for each of its four faces." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:16", "text": "The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like the look of tarshish-stone, and the four of them had one likeness; and their appearance and their workmanship was as if a wheel were within a wheel." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:17", "text": "On their four sides they would go as they went; they would not turn as they went." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:18", "text": "Their rims were high, and they were dreadful; and the rims of the four of them were full of eyes round about." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:19", "text": "When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the land, the wheels were lifted up." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:20", "text": "Wherever the ruach was about to go, they would go — there the ruach went to go; and the wheels were lifted up beside them, for the ruach of the living creature was in the wheels." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:21", "text": "When they went, they went; when they stood, they stood; and when they were lifted up from the land, the wheels were lifted up beside them — for the ruach of the living creature was in the wheels." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:22", "text": "Above the heads of the living creature was the likeness of a dome, like the look of awesome ice, spread above their heads from above." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:23", "text": "Under the dome their wings were straight, one to another; each had two wings covering them, and each had two wings covering their bodies." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:24", "text": "I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the voice of Shaddai when they went — a tumultuous sound like the sound of an army; when they stood, they would let down their wings." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:25", "text": "And a voice came from above the dome that was over their heads; when they stood, they would let down their wings." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:26", "text": "Above the dome over their heads, like the appearance of sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne; and on the likeness of the throne, the likeness of an appearance like human, on it from above." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:27", "text": "I saw — like the look of *chashmal*, like the appearance of fire encased around — from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw like the appearance of fire, and brightness around him." },{ "n": 28, "refId": "EZK-WOH-1:28", "text": "Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on a day of rain — so was the appearance of the brightness around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of YHWH. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice speaking." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/ezekiel-woh/chapters/1", "book": "/v1/library/books/ezekiel-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/ezekiel-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }