CHAPTER 10

¹And I saw and, look, on the platform that was upon the heads of the cherubim—like the sapphire stone, like the look of the likeness of a throne was seen upon them. ²And He said to the man dressed in linen, and said, “Come between the wheels beneath the cherubim and fill your hands with fiery coals from between the cherubs and cast them over the city.” And he came in before my eyes. ³And the cherubim were standing at the right side of the house as a man enters, and the cloud filled the inner court. ⁴And the glory of the LORD rose up over the cherub on the threshold of the house and filled the house, and the house was filled with the radiance of the glory of the LORD. ⁵And the sound of the cherubim’s wings could be heard as far as the outer court, like the sound of El Shaddai when He speaks. ⁶And it happened when He charged the man dressed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork from among the cherubim,” he came and stood by the wheel. ⁷And the cherub reached out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim and carried it and gave it into the hands of the man dressed in linen, and he took it and went out. ⁸And there appeared on the cherubim the form of a human hand beneath their wings. ⁹And I saw, and, look, there were four wheels by the cherubim, a single wheel by each cherub, and the look of the wheels was like the color of chrysolite. ¹⁰And their look, a single likeness for the four of them, as a wheel is within a wheel. ¹¹When they go, to their four sides they do go, they do not turn as they go, but to the place where the head turns, toward it they go, they do not turn as they go. ¹²And all their flesh and their backs and their hands and their wings and the wheels were filled with eyes all round the four of them, their wheels. ¹³As to the wheels, in my hearing they were called wheelwork. ¹⁴And each one had four faces. The face of one was a cherub’s face, and the face of the second was a human face, and of the third, a lion’s face, and of the fourth, an eagle’s face. ¹⁵And the cherubim rose up—these were the creatures that I had seen by the Kebar Canal. ¹⁶And when the cherubim went, the wheels went along with them, and when the cherubim lifted their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not turn either from alongside them. ¹⁷When they stood still, they, too, stood still, and when they rose, they, too, rose, for the spirit of the creatures was in them. ¹⁸And the glory of the LORD went forth from the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubim. ¹⁹And the cherubim lifted their wings and rose from the ground before my eyes as they went forth, and the wheels were opposite them. And they stood still at the entrance of the eastern gate of the LORD’s house. And the glory of the God of Israel was upon them from above. ²⁰These were the creatures that I had seen beneath the God of Israel at the Kebar Canal, and I knew that they were cherubim. ²¹Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings, and a likeness of human hands was beneath the wings. ²²And the likeness of their faces—these were the faces that I had seen by the Kebar Canal, the same look. Each straight ahead they did go.