Ezekiel’s Inaugural Vision

1 In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles^(A) by the Kebar River,^(B) the heavens were opened^(C) and I saw visions^(D) of God.

²² Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault,^(A) sparkling like crystal, and awesome.

¹⁵ Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures^(A) I had seen by the Kebar River.^(B)