Verse 19
Ezekiel 1:19
New Living Translation
19
When the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. When they flew upward, the wheels went up, too.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/בְ/לֶ֨כֶת֙ הַֽ/חַיּ֔וֹת יֵלְכ֥וּ הָ/אוֹפַנִּ֖ים אֶצְלָ֑/ם וּ/בְ/הִנָּשֵׂ֤א הַֽ/חַיּוֹת֙ מֵ/עַ֣ל הָ/אָ֔רֶץ יִנָּשְׂא֖וּ הָ/אוֹפַנִּֽים
English Translation
And when the living creatures walk, the wheels will go beside them; and when the living creatures rise from the earth, the wheels will be lifted up.
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On July 31 of my thirtieth year, while I was with the Judean exiles beside the Kebar River in Babylo...
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This happened during the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity.
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(The LORD gave this message to Ezekiel son of Buzi, a priest, beside the Kebar River in the land of...
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As I looked, I saw a great storm coming from the north, driving before it a huge cloud that flashed...
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From the center of the cloud came four living beings that looked human,
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except that each had four faces and four wings.
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Their legs were straight, and their feet had hooves like those of a calf and shone like burnished br...
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Under each of their four wings I could see human hands. So each of the four beings had four faces an...
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The wings of each living being touched the wings of the beings beside it. Each one moved straight fo...
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Each had a human face in the front, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the l...
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Each had two pairs of outstretched wings — one pair stretched out to touch the wings of the living b...
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They went in whatever direction the spirit chose, and they moved straight forward in any direction w...
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The living beings looked like bright coals of fire or brilliant torches, and lightning seemed to fla...
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And the living beings darted to and fro like flashes of lightning.
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As I looked at these beings, I saw four wheels touching the ground beside them, one wheel belonging...
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The wheels sparkled as if made of beryl. All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each w...
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The beings could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved.
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The rims of the four wheels were tall and frightening, and they were covered with eyes all around.
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When the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. When they flew upward, the wheels went up,...
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The spirit of the living beings was in the wheels. So wherever the spirit went, the wheels and the l...
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When the beings moved, the wheels moved. When the beings stopped, the wheels stopped. When the being...
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Spread out above them was a surface like the sky, glittering like crystal.
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Beneath this surface the wings of each living being stretched out to touch the others’ wings, and ea...
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As they flew, their wings sounded to me like waves crashing against the shore or like the voice of t...
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As they stood with wings lowered, a voice spoke from beyond the crystal surface above them.
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Above this surface was something that looked like a throne made of blue lapis lazuli. And on this th...
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From what appeared to be his waist up, he looked like gleaming amber, flickering like a fire. And fr...
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All around him was a glowing halo, like a rainbow shining in the clouds on a rainy day. This is what...
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