Ezekiel 10:4-18

4Then the 1glory of the Lord went up from the cherub to the threshold of the temple, and the 2temple was filled with the cloud, and the courtyard was filled with the 3brightness of the glory of the Lord. 5Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer courtyard, like the 4voice of 5God Almighty when He speaks.

6And it came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he entered and stood beside a wheel. 7Then the cherub reached out with his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some coals and put them into the hands of the one clothed in linen; and he took them and went out. 8The cherubim appeared to have something like a human hand under their wings.

9Then I looked, and behold, 6four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a 78Tarshish stone. 10And as for their appearance, all four of them had the same likeness, as if one wheel were within another wheel. 11When they moved, they went 9in any of their four 10directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which 11they faced, without turning as they went. 12And their 12whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the 13wheels were 14covered with eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them. 13The wheels were called, 15as I heard, the 16whirling wheels. 14And 17each one had four faces. The first face was the face of a cherub, the second face was the face of a human, the third, the face of a lion, and the fourth, the face of an eagle.

15Then the cherubim rose up. They are the 18living beings that I saw by the river Chebar. 16Now when the cherubim moved, the wheels would move beside them; also when the cherubim lifted up their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels themselves would not turn away from beside them. 17When 19the cherubim 20stood still, 21the wheels would stand still; and when they rose up, 22the wheels would rise with them, because the spirit of the living beings was in them.

18Then the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood 23over the cherubim.