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Ezekiel 1:14-22 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

14. The creatures raced back and forth like flashes of lightning.

15. As I looked at the living creatures, I saw wheels on the ground beside them. Each creature had four faces.

16. Here's how the wheels looked and worked. They gleamed like chrysolite. All four of them looked alike. Each one seemed to be made like a wheel inside another wheel at right angles.

17. The wheels could go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced. The wheels didn't change their direction as the creatures moved.

18. Their rims were high and terrifying. All four rims were full of eyes all the way around them.

19. When the creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved. When the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose.

20. Anywhere their spirits would lead them to go, they would go. And the wheels would rise along with them. That's because the spirits of the living creatures were in the wheels.

21. When the creatures moved, the wheels also moved. When the creatures stood still, they also stood still. When the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them. That's because the spirits of the living creatures were in the wheels.

22. Something that looked like a huge space was spread out above the heads of the living creatures. It gleamed like ice. It was terrifying.

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