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Ezekiel 1:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire. "
Ezekiel 1:13
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11 Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.
12 Each one went straight forward. Where the spirit was to go, they went. They didn’t turn when they went.
13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. The fire went up and down among the living creatures. The fire was bright, and lightning went out of the fire.
14 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
15 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it.
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Ezekiel 1:1
"Now in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God."
Ezekiel 1:2
"In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,"
Ezekiel 1:3
"the LORD’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the LORD’s hand was there on him."
Ezekiel 1:4
"I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of the middle of it as it were glowing metal, out of the middle of the fire."
Ezekiel 1:5
"Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man."
Ezekiel 1:6
"Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings."
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