Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the karubin there appeared above them as it were a sapphire[1] stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 2He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the karubi, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the karubin, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched. 3Now the karubin stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 4The glory of Allah mounted up from the karubi, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Allah’s glory. 5The sound of the wings of the karubin was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of God Almighty when he speaks. 6It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the karubin, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel. 7The karubi stretched forth his hand from between the karubin to the fire that was between the karubin, and took of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out. 8There appeared in the karubin the form of a man’s hand under their wings. 9I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the karubin, one wheel beside one karubi, and another wheel beside another karubi; and the appearance of the wheels was like a beryl stone. 10As for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been within a wheel. 11When they went, they went in their four directions: they did not turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they did not turn as they went. 12Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes all around, even the wheels that they four had. 13As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels. 14Every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the karubi, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle. 15The karubin mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar. 16When the karubin went, the wheels went beside them; and when the karubin lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also did not turn from beside them. 17When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them. 18The glory of Allah went forth from over the threshold of the house, and stood over the karubin. 19The karubin lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east gate of Allah’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above. 20This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were karubin. 21Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings. 22As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
[1] 10:1 or, lapis lazuli