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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Ezekiel 1
¹ Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
² (On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile,
³ the word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the Lord came upon him.)
⁴ As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire.
⁵ Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.
⁶ Each of them had four faces and four wings.
⁷ Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze.
⁸ Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them,
⁹ their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward.
¹⁰ As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man; all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle.
¹¹ Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching another being, and two covering their bodies.