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forme, and their facion, and their worke was
as one wheele in another wheele. 17 Whe they
The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel went, they went vpon their foure sides, and they
returned not when they went. 18 They had also

1 It came to passe in the thirtieth yere in the rings, and height, and were fearefull to beholde,
fourth moneth, and in the fift day of the moneth and their rings were full of eyes, round about
them foure.
And when the beastes went, the
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(as I was among the captiues by the riuer Chebar) wheeles went with them: and when the beasts
that the heauens were opened and I sawe visions were lift vp from the earth, the wheeles were lift
of GOD. In the fift day of the moneth (which vp. 20 Whither the spirit led them, they went,
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was the fift yere of King Ioiachins captiuitie) and thither did the spirite of the wheeles leade
3 The word of the Lord came vnto Ezekiel the them, and the wheeles were lifted vp besides
Priest, the sonne of Buzi, in the lande of the them: for the spirit of the beastes was in the
Caldeans, by the riuer Chebar, where the hande wheeles. 21 When the beastes went, they went,
of the Lord was vpon him. 4 And I looked, and and when they stoode, they stoode, and when
beholde, a whirlewinde came out of the North, they were lifted vp from the earth, the wheeles
a great cloude and a fire wrapped about it, and were lifted vp besides them: for the spirite of the
a brightnesse was about it, and in the middes beastes was in the wheeles. 22 And the similitude
thereof, to wit, in the middes of the fire came out of the firmament vpon the heads of the beasts
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as the likenesse of amber. Also out of the middes
therof came the likenesse of foure beastes, and was wonderfull, like vnto chrystall, spred ouer
this was their forme: they had the appearance their heads aboue. 23 And vnder the firmament
of a man. 6 And euery one had foure faces, and were their wings streight, the one toward the
euery one had foure wings. And their feete were other: every one had two, which couered the, and
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streight feete, and the sole of their feete was like euery one had two, which couered their bodies.
the sole of a calues foote, and they sparkled like 24 And when they went foorth, I heard the noyse
theappearanceofbrightbrasse. Andthehandes of their wings, like the noyse of great waters, and
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of a man came out from vnder their wings in as the voyce of the Almightie, euen the voyce of
the foure parts of them, and they foure had their speach, as the noyse of an host: and when they
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faces, and their wings. 9 They where ioyned by stood, they let downe their wings. And there
their wings one to another, and when they went was a voyce from the firmament, that was ouer
forth, they returned not, but euery one went their heads, when they stoode, and had let downe
streight forward. 10 And the similitude of their their wings. 26 And aboue the firmament that was
faces was as the face of a man: and they foure ouer their heads, was the facion of a throne like
vnto a saphir stone, and vpon the similitude of
had the face of a lyon on the right side, and they the throne was by appearance, as the similitude
foure had the face of a bullocke on the left side: 27
they foure also had the face of an eagle. 11 Thus of a man aboue vpon it. And I sawe as the
were their faces: but their wings were spred out appearance of amber, and as the similitude of
aboue: two wings of euery one were ioined one fire round about within it to looke to, euen from
his loynes vpwarde: and to looke to, euen from
to another, and two couered their bodies. 12 And his loynes downewarde, I sawe as a likenesse of
euery one went streight forward: they went 28
whither their spirit led them, and they returned fire, and brightnesse round about it. As the
not when they went forth. 13 The similitude likenesse of the bowe, that is in the cloude in the
day of raine, so was the appearance of the light
also of the beasts, and their appearance was like round about. 29 This was the appearance of the
burning coles of fire, and like the appearance similitude of the glorie of the Lord: and when I
of lampes: for the fire ran among the beastes, sawe it, I fell vpon my face, and I heard a voyce of
and the fire gaue a glister, and out of the fire one that spake.
there went lightning. 14 And the beastes ranne,
and returned like vnto lightning. 15 Nowe as I
behelde the beastes, beholde, a wheele appeared 2
vpon the earth by the beastes, hauing foure faces. 1 And he said vnto me, Sonne of man, stand
16 The facion of the wheeles and their worke was vp vpon thy feete, and I wil speake vnto thee.
like vnto a chrysolite: and they foure had one 2 And the Spirite entred into me, when he had