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What does Ezekiel 1:5 mean?
"Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man."
— Ezekiel 1:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,
Yahweh’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.
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.
Out of its center came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: They had the likeness of a man.
Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings.
Their feet were straight feet. The sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.
They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. The four of them had their faces and their wings like this:
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