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Ezekiel 1 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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The Vision of Four Figures

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:1 - Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw [fn]visions of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:2 - (On the fifth of the month [fn]in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:3 - the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:4 - As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:5 - Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:6 - Each of them had four faces and four wings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:7 - Their legs were straight and [fn]their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:8 - Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:9 - their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:10 - As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; [fn]all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and [fn]all four had the face of an eagle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:11 - Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:12 - And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:13 - [fn]In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, [fn]like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was [fn]flashing from the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:14 - And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:15 - Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, [fn]for each of the four of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:16 - The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like [fn]sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if [fn]one wheel were within another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:17 - Whenever they [fn]moved, they [fn]moved in any of their four [fn]directions without turning as they [fn]moved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:18 - As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:19 - Whenever the living beings [fn]moved, the wheels [fn]moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:20 - Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction[fn]. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living [fn]beings was in the wheels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:21 - Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living [fn]beings was in the wheels.

Vision of Divine Glory

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:22 - Now over the heads of the living [fn]beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of [fn]crystal, spread out over their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:23 - Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also had two wings covering its body on the one side and on the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:24 - I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of [fn]the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:25 - And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:26 - Now above the expanse that was over their heads there was something resembling a throne, like [fn]lapis lazuli in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne, high up, was a figure with the appearance of a man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:27 - Then I [fn]noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like [fn]glowing metal that looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of His loins and downward I saw something like fire; and there was a radiance around Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:28 - As the appearance of the rainbow [fn]in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Some ancient mss and versions read a vision
Literally: it was
Literally: the soles of their feet
Literally: the four of them
So with some ancient versions; Heb as the likeness of the living beings
Literally: like the appearance of
Literally: coming out
Literally: for his four faces
Literally: the look of beryl
Literally: the wheel in the midst of the wheel
Literally: went
Literally: sides
Literally: went
M.T. adds the spirit to go
M.T. reads being
M.T. reads being
So some ancient mss and versions; M.T. reads being
Or, ice
Hebrew: Shaddai
Hebrew: eben-sappir
Literally: saw
Or, electrum
Literally: which occurs in
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Ezekiel Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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