1 Depois olhei, e eis que no firmamento, que estava por cima da cabeça dos querubins, apareceu sobre eles uma como pedra de safira, semelhante a forma de um trono.2 E falou ao homem vestido de linho, dizendo: Vai por entre as rodas, até debaixo do querubim, e enche as tuas mãos de brasas acesas dentre os querubins e espalha-as sobre a cidade. E ele entrou à minha vista.3 E os querubins estavam ao lado direito da casa, quando entrou aquele homem; e uma nuvem encheu o átrio interior.4 Então se levantou a glória do Senhor de sobre o querubim indo para a entrada da casa; e encheu-se a casa de uma nuvem, e o átrio se encheu do resplendor da glória do Senhor.5 E o ruído das asas dos querubins se ouviu até ao átrio exterior, como a voz do Deus Todo-Poderoso, quando fala.6 Sucedeu, pois, que, dando ele ordem ao homem vestido de linho, dizendo: Toma fogo dentre as rodas, dentre os querubins, entrou ele, e parou junto às rodas.7 Então estendeu um querubim a sua mão dentre os querubins para o fogo que estava entre os querubins; e tomou dele, e o pôs nas mãos do que estava vestido de linho; o qual o tomou, e saiu.8 E apareceu nos querubins uma semelhança de mão de homem debaixo das suas asas.9 Então olhei, e eis quatro rodas junto aos querubins, uma roda junto a um querubim, e outra roda junto a outro querubim; e o aspecto das rodas era como a cor da pedra de berilo.10 E, quanto ao seu aspecto, as quatro tinham uma mesma semelhança; como se estivesse uma roda no meio de outra roda.11 Andando estes, andavam para os quatro lados deles; não se viravam quando andavam, mas para o lugar para onde olhava a cabeça, para esse seguiam; não se viravam quando andavam.12 E todo o seu corpo, as suas costas, as suas mãos, as suas asas e as rodas, as rodas que os quatro tinham, estavam cheias de olhos ao redor.13 E, quanto às rodas, ouvindo eu, se lhes gritava: Roda!14 E cada um tinha quatro rostos; o rosto do primeiro era rosto de querubim, e o rosto do segundo, rosto de homem, e do terceiro era rosto de leão, e do quarto, rosto de águia.15 E os querubins se elevaram ao alto; estes são os mesmos seres viventes que vi junto ao rio Quebar.16 E, andando os querubins, andavam as rodas juntamente com eles; e, levantando os querubins as suas asas, para se elevarem de sobre a terra, também as rodas não se separavam deles.17 Parando eles, paravam elas; e, elevando-se eles elevavam-se elas, porque o espírito do ser vivente estava nelas.18 Então saiu a glória do Senhor de sobre a entrada da casa, e parou sobre os querubins.19 E os querubins alçaram as suas asas, e se elevaram da terra aos meus olhos, quando saíram; e as rodas os acompanhavam; e cada um parou à entrada da porta oriental da casa do Senhor; e a glória do Deus de Israel estava em cima, sobre eles.20 Estes são os seres viventes que vi debaixo do Deus de Israel, junto ao rio Quebar, e conheci que eram querubins.21 Cada um tinha quatro rostos e cada um quatro asas, e a semelhança de mãos de homem debaixo das suas asas.22 E a semelhança dos seus rostos era a dos rostos que eu tinha visto junto ao rio Quebar, o aspecto deles, e eles mesmos; cada um andava para diante do seu rosto.

1 Then I saw, and, behold, on the vault that was above the head of the cherubim, there appeared over them something like a sapphire stone, something similar in appearance to the likeness of a throne.2 And he said unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, under the cherub, and fill thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and throw them over the city. And he went in before my eyes.3 Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the house, when the man went in: and the cloud filled the inner court.4 Then the glory of the Lord rose upward from the cherub, toward the threshold of the house: and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord’s glory.5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.6 And it came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside the wheel.7 And the one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim unto the fire that was between the cherubim, and lifted it up, and placed it into the hands of the one clothed in linen; who took it, and went out.8 And there became visible on the cherubim the form of a man’s hand beneath their wings.9 And I saw, and, behold, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by the one cherub, and another wheel by the other cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was like the glitter of a chrysolite stone.10 And as for their appearances, the whole four had one likeness, as if a wheel were in the midst of another wheel.11 In their going, they went toward their four sides, they turned not round in their going; but to the place whither the head was turned they followed it, they turned not round in their going.12 And their whole body, and their back, and their hands, and their wings, as also the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that belonged to all four of them.13 As for the wheels, they were called Galgal before my ears.14 And every one had four faces: the one face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face was the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.15 And the cherubim lifted themselves up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river Kebar.16 And when the cherubim went forward, the wheels went close by them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also did not turn away from beside them.17 When those halted, these halted; and when those lifted themselves up, these lifted themselves up with them; for the spirit of the living creature was in them.18 And the glory of the Lord went forth from off the threshold of the house, and halted over the cherubim.19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went forth, and the wheels at the same time with them, and halted at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the Lord: 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 Kebar; and I understood that they were cherubim.21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one had four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.22 And the likeness of their faces was the same as the faces which I had seen by the river Kebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one in the direction of his face.