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Ezekiel 1:1
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Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in
the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by
the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. |
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Ezekiel 1:2
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In the fifth day of the month, which was the
fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, |
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Ezekiel 1:3
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The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel
the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. |
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Ezekiel 1:4
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And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came
out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness
was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the
midst of the fire. |
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Ezekiel 1:5
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Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness
of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness
of a man. |
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Ezekiel 1:6
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And every one had four faces, and every one
had four wings. |
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Ezekiel 1:7
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And their feet were straight feet; and the sole
of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour
of burnished brass. |
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Ezekiel 1:8
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And they had the hands of a man under their
wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. |
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Ezekiel 1:9
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Their wings were joined one to another; they
turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. |
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Ezekiel 1:10
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As for the likeness of their faces, they four
had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four
had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. |
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Ezekiel 1:11
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Thus were their faces: and their wings were
stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered
their bodies. |
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Ezekiel 1:12
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And they went every one straight forward: whither
the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. |
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Ezekiel 1:13
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As for the likeness of the living creatures,
their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps:
it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out
of the fire went forth lightning. |
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Ezekiel 1:14
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And the living creatures ran and returned as
the appearance of a flash of lightning. |
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Ezekiel 1:15
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Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold
one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. |
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Ezekiel 1:16
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The appearance of the wheels and their work
was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their
appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. |
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Ezekiel 1:17
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When they went, they went upon their four sides:
and they turned not when they went. |
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Ezekiel 1:18
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As for their rings, they were so high that
they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. |
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Ezekiel 1:19
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And when the living creatures went, the wheels
went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up. |
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Ezekiel 1:20
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Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went,
thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them:
for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. |
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Ezekiel 1:21
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When those went, these went; and when those
stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were
lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels. |
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Ezekiel 1:22
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And the likeness of the firmament upon the
heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched
forth over their heads above. |
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Ezekiel 1:23
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And under the firmament were their wings straight,
the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every
one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. |
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Ezekiel 1:24
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And when they went, I heard the noise of their
wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice
of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. |
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Ezekiel 1:25
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And there was a voice from the firmament that
was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings. |
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Ezekiel 1:26
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And above the firmament that was over their
heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and
upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above
upon it. |
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Ezekiel 1:27
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And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance
of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and
from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance
of fire, and it had brightness round about. |
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Ezekiel 1:28
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As the appearance of the bow that is in the
cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw
it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake. |
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