Ezekiel 1 Literal Standard Version

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2020
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PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)

1 And it comes to pass, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], on the fifth of the month, and I [am] in the midst of the expulsion by the river Chebar, the heavens have been opened, and I see visions of God.

2 In the fifth of the month—it is the fifth year of the expulsion of King Jehoiachin—

3 the word of YHWH has certainly been to Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar, and there is on him there a hand of YHWH.

4 And I look, and behold, a turbulent wind is coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire catching itself, and brightness to it all around, and out of its midst as the color of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.

5 And out of its midst [is] a likeness of four living creatures, and this [is] their appearance; a likeness of man [is] to them,

6 and each had four faces and each of them had four wings,

7 and their feet [are] straight feet, and the sole of their feet [is] as a sole of a calf’s foot, and they are sparkling as the color of bright bronze;

8 and on their four sides [each had] hands of man under their wings; and [each] of the four had their faces and their wings;

9 their wings [are] joining to one another, they do not turn around in their going, they each go straight forward.

10 As for the likeness of their faces, [each had] the face of a man, and toward the right the four had the face of a lion, and on the left the four had the face of an ox, and the four had the face of an eagle.

11 And their faces and their wings dividing from above, of each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.

12 And they each go straight forward, to where the Spirit is to go, they go, they do not turn around in their going.

13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances [are] as coals of fire—burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness [is] to the fire, and lightning is going forth out of the fire.

14 And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.

15 And I see the living creatures, and behold, one wheel [is] in the earth, near the living creatures, at its four faces.

16 The appearance of the wheels and their works [is] as the color of beryl, and the four of them had one likeness, and their appearances and their works [are] as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.

17 On their four sides, in their going they go, they do not turn around in their going.

18 As for their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings, of the four of them, [are] full of eyes around them.

19 And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, the wheels are lifted up.

20 To where the Spirit is to go, they go, there the Spirit [is] to go, and the wheels are lifted up alongside them, for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.

21 In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and in their being lifted up from off the earth, the wheels are lifted up alongside them; for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.

22 And over the heads of the living creatures—a likeness of an expanse, as the color of the fearful ice, stretched out over their heads from above.

23 And under the expanse their wings [are] straight, one toward [its] sister; two [wings] of each are covering them, and two [wings] of each are covering their bodies.

24 And I hear the noise of their wings, as the noise of many waters, as the noise of the Mighty One, in their going—the noise of tumult, as the noise of a camp, in their standing they let their wings fall.

25 And there is a voice from above the expanse, that [is] above their head: in their standing they let their wings fall.

26 And above the expanse that [is] over their head, as an appearance of a sapphire stone, [is] the likeness of a throne, and on the likeness of the throne a likeness, as the appearance of man on it from above.

27 And I see as the color of electrum, as the appearance of fire all around within it, from the appearance of His loins and upward; and from the appearance of His loins and downward, I have seen as the appearance of fire, and brightness [is] all around Him.

28 As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain, so [is] the appearance of the brightness all around.

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Buzi
Father of Ezekiel
Named as the father of the priest Ezekiel.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 1:3
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Ezekiel
Priest-prophet in Babylon
The priest, son of Buzi, among the exiles by the Chebar Canal to whom the word of the LORD came.
Cited in the guide: Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 24:24
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Quotes verse 1:28 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture IX)
He saw the likeness of the glory of the Lord; not the Lord Himself, but the likeness of His glory, not the glory itself, as it really is.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Quotes verse 1:6–11 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture IX)
… Ezekiel the Prophet even made a description of them, as far as was possible, saying that every one has four faces, one of a man, another of a lion, another of an eagle, and another of a calf; and that each one had six wings, and they had eyes on all sides; and that under each one was a …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)

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