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*1 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.
1 or, lapis lazuli
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