Ezekiel 10:8-22

English Standard Version

⁸The cherubim appeared to have ^(A)the form of a human hand under their wings.

⁹^(B)And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub, and ^(C)the appearance of the wheels was ^(D)like sparkling ^(E)beryl. ¹⁰And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel. ¹¹^(F)When they went, they went in any of their four directions^[a] ^(G)without turning as they went, ^(H)but in whatever direction the front wheel^[b] faced, the others followed without turning as they went. ¹²^(I)And their whole body, their rims, and their spokes, their wings,^[c] and the wheels were full of eyes all around—the wheels that the four of them had. ¹³As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing ^(J)“the whirling wheels.” ¹⁴^(K)And every one had four faces: ^(L)the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was ^(M)a human face, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

¹⁵^(N)And the cherubim mounted up. These were ^(O)the living creatures that I saw by ^(P)the Chebar canal. ¹⁶^(Q)And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them. And ^(R)when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them. ¹⁷^(S)When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them, for the spirit of the living creatures^[d] was in them.

¹⁸^(T)Then ^(U)the glory of the Lord went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim. ¹⁹^(V)And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth ^(W)before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the ^(X)east gate of the house of the Lord, and ^(Y)the glory of the God of Israel was over them.

²⁰^(Z)These were the living creatures that I saw ^(AA)underneath the God of Israel by ^(AB)the Chebar canal; and I knew that they were cherubim. ²¹^(AC)Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings ^(AD)the likeness of human hands. ²²^(AE)And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal. ^(AF)Each one of them went straight forward.