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Ezekiel 10:4-15 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

4. The dazzling light of the Lord's presence rose up from the creatures and moved to the entrance of the Temple. Then the cloud filled the Temple, and the courtyard was blazing with the light.

5. The noise made by the creatures' wings was heard even in the outer courtyard. It sounded like the voice of Almighty God.

6. When the Lord commanded the man wearing linen clothes to take some fire from between the wheels that were under the creatures, the man went in and stood by one of the wheels.

7. One of the creatures put his hand into the fire that was there among them, picked up some coals, and put them in the hands of the man in linen. The man took the coals and left.

8. I saw that each creature had what looked like a human hand under each of its wings.

9-10. I also saw that there were four wheels, all alike, one beside each creature. The wheels shone like precious stones, and each one had another wheel which intersected it at right angles.

11. When the creatures moved, they could go in any direction without turning. They all moved together in the direction they wanted to go, without having to turn round.

12. Their bodies, backs, hands, wings, and wheels were covered with eyes.

13. I heard a voice calling out, “Whirling wheels”.

14. Each creature had four faces. The first was the face of a bull, the second a human face, the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15. (They were the same creatures that I had seen by the River Chebar.) When the creatures rose in the air

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