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Ezekiel 10:8-20 Good News Bible (GNB)

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

16. and moved, the wheels went with them. Whenever they spread their wings to fly, the wheels still went with them.

17. When the creatures stopped, the wheels stopped; and when the creatures flew, the wheels went with them, because the creatures controlled them.

18. Then the dazzling light of the Lord's presence left the entrance of the Temple and moved to a place above the creatures.

19. They spread their wings and flew up from the earth while I was watching, and the wheels went with them. They paused at the east gate of the Temple, and the dazzling light was over them.

20. I recognized them as the same creatures which I had seen beneath the God of Israel at the River Chebar.

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