Ezekiel 1:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 The creatures darting back and forth flashed like lightning.
15 [a]As I looked at the living creatures, I saw wheels on the ground, one alongside each of the four living creatures.(A) 16 The wheels and their construction sparkled like yellow topaz, and all four of them looked the same: their construction seemed as though one wheel was inside the other.
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- 1:15–21 The repetitions and inconsistencies in the description of the wheels and the direction of their movements evoke the vision’s mysterious quality and emphasize the difficulty of describing the divine world in human language.
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