Ezekiel 1:1-3

Lexham English Bible

Date of Vision of Living Creatures and Glory of the Throne of Yahweh

1 And it was in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, and I was in the midst of^[a] the exiles^[b] by the Kebar River.^[c] The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. ² On the fifth day of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of the king Jehoiachin— ³ the word of Yahweh came^[d] clearly^[e] to Ezekiel the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans at the Kebar River,^[f] and the hand of Yahweh was on him there.