[1] Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the
cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a throne. [2] He spoke to the man clothed in
linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the
cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the
cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched. [3] Now
the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in;
and the cloud filled the inner court. [4] The glory of Yahweh mounted up
from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house
was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of
Yahweh`s glory. [5] The sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even
to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. [6] It
came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire
from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went
in, and stood beside a wheel. [7] The cherub stretched forth his hand from
between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took
[of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who
took it and went out. [8] There appeared in the cherubim the form of a
man`s hand under their wings. [9] I looked, and behold, four wheels beside
the cherubim, one wheel beside one cherub, and another wheel beside another
cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. [10] As
for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been
within a wheel. [11] When they went, they went in their four directions:
they didn`t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they
followed it; they didn`t turn as they went. [12] Their whole body, and
their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of
eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four had. [13] As for the
wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling [wheels]. [14] Every
one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the
second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion,
and the fourth the face of an eagle. [15] The cherubim mounted up: this is
the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. [16] When the cherubim
went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their
wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also didn`t turn from beside
them. [17] When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these
mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
[18] The glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house,
and stood over the cherubim. [19] The cherubim lifted up their wings, and
mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels
beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Yahweh`s house;
and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. [20] This is the
living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and
I knew that they were cherubim. [21] Every one had four faces, and every
one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their
wings. [22] As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I
saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every
one straight forward.
