Ezekiel 10:9-19

9Then I looked, and behold, 1four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a 23Tarshish 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 4in any of their four 5directions without turning as they went; but they followed in the direction which 6they faced, without turning as they went. 12And their 7whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the 8wheels were 9covered with eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them. 13The wheels were called, 10as I heard, the 11whirling wheels. 14And 12each 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 13living 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 14the cherubim 15stood still, 16the wheels would stand still; and when they rose up, 17the 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 18over the cherubim. 19When 19the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the ground in my sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel 20hovered over them.