The Vision of the Four Living Creatures

In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened. And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. In this with their appearance, they had the form of men, but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like burnished bronze. They went every one straight forward without turning as they went. As for the likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front