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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. 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.

14 The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.(A)

15 As I looked at the living creatures,(B) I saw a wheel(C) on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz,(D) and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.

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