¹ 当三十年四月初五日，以西结（原文是我）在迦巴鲁河边被掳的人中，天就开了，得见神的异象。

² 正是约雅斤王被掳去第五年四月初五日，

³ 在迦勒底人之地、迦巴鲁河边，耶和华的话特特临到布西的儿子祭司以西结；耶和华的灵（原文是手）降在他身上。

⁴ 我观看，见狂风从北方刮来，随着有一朵包括闪烁火的大云，周围有光辉；从其中的火内发出好像光耀的精金；

⁵ 又从其中显出四个活物的形像来。他们的形状是这样：有人的形像，

⁶ 各有四个脸面，四个翅膀。

⁷ 他们的腿是直的，脚掌好像牛犊之蹄，都灿烂如光明的铜。

⁸ 在四面的翅膀以下有人的手。这四个活物的脸和翅膀乃是这样：

⁹ 翅膀彼此相接，行走并不转身，俱各直往前行。

¹⁰ 至於脸的形像：前面各有人的脸，右面各有狮子的脸，左面各有牛的脸，後面各有鹰的脸。

¹¹ 各展开上边的两个翅膀相接，各以下边的两个翅膀遮体。

¹² 他们俱各直往前行。灵往哪里去，他们就往那里去，行走并不转身。

¹³ 至於四活物的形像，就如烧着火炭的形状，又如火把的形状。火在四活物中间上去下来，这火有光辉，从火中发出闪电。

¹⁴ 这活物往来奔走，好像电光一闪。

¹⁵ 我正观看活物的时候，见活物的脸旁各有一轮在地上。

¹⁶ 轮的形状和颜色（原文是作法）好像水苍玉。四轮都是一个样式，形状和作法好像轮中套轮。

¹⁷ 轮行走的时候，向四方都能直行，并不掉转。

¹⁸ 至於轮辋，高而可畏；四个轮辋周围满有眼睛。

¹⁹ 活物行走，轮也在旁边行走；活物从地上升，轮也都上升。

²⁰ 灵往哪里去，活物就往那里去；活物上升，轮也在活物旁边上升，因为活物的灵在轮中。

²¹ 那些行走，这些也行走；那些站住，这些也站住；那些从地上升，轮也在旁边上升，因为活物的灵在轮中。

²² 活物的头以上有穹苍的形像，看着像可畏的水晶，铺张在活物的头以上。

²³ 穹苍以下，活物的翅膀直张，彼此相对；每活物有两个翅膀遮体。

²⁴ 活物行走的时候，我听见翅膀的响声，像大水的声音，像全能者的声音，也像军队哄嚷的声音。活物站住的时候，便将翅膀垂下。

²⁵ 在他们头以上的穹苍之上有声音。他们站住的时候，便将翅膀垂下。

²⁶ 在他们头以上的穹苍之上有宝座的形像，彷佛蓝宝石；在宝座形像以上有彷佛人的形状。

²⁷ 我见从他腰以上有彷佛光耀的精金，周围都有火的形状，又见从他腰以下有彷佛火的形状，周围也有光辉。

²⁸ 下雨的日子，云中虹的形状怎样，周围光辉的形状也是怎样。这就是耶和华荣耀的形像。我一看见就俯伏在地，又听见一位说话的声音。

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

² "Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and everyone who has an issue, and whoever is unclean by the dead.

³ Both you shall put male and female outside of the camp; that they not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell."

⁴ The children of Israel did so, and put them out outside of the camp; as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the children of Israel.

⁵ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

⁶ "Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty;

⁷ then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.

⁸ But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.

⁹ Every heave offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present to the priest, shall be his.

¹⁰ Every man's holy things shall be his: whatever any man gives the priest, it shall be his.'"

¹¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

¹² "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

¹³ and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;

¹⁴ and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn't defiled:

¹⁵ then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

¹⁶ The priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh;

¹⁷ and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.

¹⁸ The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

¹⁹ The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

²⁰ But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

²¹ then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, "Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

²² and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away." The woman shall say, "Amen, Amen."

²³ "'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

²⁴ He shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

²⁵ The priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar.

²⁶ The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as its memorial, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.

²⁷ When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.

²⁸ If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

²⁹ "'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

³⁰ or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.

³¹ The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'"