Ezekiel 1:4-14
The Four Living Creatures

4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness [was] about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

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5 Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.

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6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

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7 And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their feet [was] like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

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8 And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

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9 Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

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10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

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11 Thus [were] their faces: and their wings [were] stretched upward; two [wings] of every one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

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12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; [and] they turned not when they went.

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13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance [was] like burning coals of fire, [and] like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

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14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

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