1 In the thirtieth year on the fifth day of the fourth month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens opened, and I saw visions of God.
2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity,
3 the word of Adonai came to Ezekiel the kohen, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar. (The hand of Adonai was upon him there.)
4 I looked, and behold, a storm wind came from the north, a great cloud with flashing fire and brightness all around it, and something like a glowing alloy out of the fire.
5 From within it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had a likeness of a human,
6 but each one had four faces and each one of them had four wings.