(On the fifth of the month [a]in the (A)fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile, the (B)word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the (C)land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there (D)the hand of the Lord came upon him.)

As I looked, behold, a (E)high wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing intermittently and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like (F)gleaming [b]metal in the midst of the fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 1:2 Lit it was
  2. Ezekiel 1:4 Heb uncertain; Gr indicates a gold and silver alloy

On the fifth of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin(A) the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel(B) the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.[a] There the hand of the Lord was on him.(C)

I looked, and I saw a windstorm(D) coming out of the north(E)—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal,(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 1:3 Or Chaldeans