1. In the thirtieth year on the fifth day of the fourth month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens opened, and I saw visions of God.
2. In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,
3. the word of Adonai came to Ezekiel the kohen, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar. (The hand of Adonai was upon him there.)
4. I looked, and behold, a storm wind came from the north, a great cloud with flashing fire and brightness all around it, and something like a glowing alloy out of the fire.
5. From within it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had a likeness of a human,
6. but each one had four faces and each one of them had four wings.
7. Their legs were straight and the soles of their feet were like the hoof of a calf. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze.
8. They had human hands under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had faces and wings: