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Ezekiel 10
¹⁰ All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.
¹¹ The cherubim could move in any of the four directions they faced, without turning as they moved. They went straight in the direction they faced, never turning aside.
¹² Both the cherubim and the wheels were covered with eyes. The cherubim had eyes all over their bodies, including their hands, their backs, and their wings.
¹³ I heard someone refer to the wheels as “the whirling wheels.”
¹⁴ Each of the four cherubim had four faces: the first was the face of an ox, the second was a human face, the third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle.
¹⁵ Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the same living beings I had seen beside the Kebar River.
¹⁶ When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved with them. When they lifted their wings to fly, the wheels stayed beside them.
¹⁷ When the cherubim stopped, the wheels stopped. When they flew upward, the wheels rose up, for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.
¹⁸ Then the glory of the LORD moved out from the door of the Temple and hovered above the cherubim.
¹⁹ And as I watched, the cherubim flew with their wheels to the east gate of the LORD’s Temple. And the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.
²⁰ These were the same living beings I had seen beneath the God of Israel when I was by the Kebar River. I knew they were cherubim,