Ezekiel 10:4-18

4Then the glory of Adonai rose up from above the cheruv to the threshold of the House. The House was filled with the cloud and the court was full of the brilliance of Adonai’s glory.

5The sound of the wings of the cheruvim was heard as far as the outer court, as the voice of El Shaddai when He speaks.

6After He commanded the man clothed in linen saying: “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cheruvim,” he went in and stood beside a wheel.

7The cheruv reached out his hand from between the cheruvim into the fire that was between the cheruvim and took some of it. He put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

8The cheruvim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings.

9Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cheruvim, one wheel beside one cheruv, and another wheel beside another cheruv. The appearance of the wheels was like the sparkling of a beryl stone.

10As for their appearance, the four had one form—like a wheel within a wheel.

11When they went, they would go in any of their four directions, without pivoting as they went. So to whatever place the head faced, they followed, without turning as they went.

12Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings, and their wheels, the wheels of the four of them, were full of eyes all around.

13As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing “the whirling wheels.”

14Each one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cheruv, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face of a lion and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15The cheruvim arose—these were the living creatures that I saw by the river Chebar.

16As the cheruvim went, the wheels would go beside them. When the cheruvim lifted up their wings to rise from the earth, the wheels would not turn from beside them.

17When they stood still, these stood still. When they rose up, these rose up with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.

18Then the glory of Adonai went forth from above the threshold of the House and stood above the cheruvim.