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 It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.

² The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was sixty cubits, and its breadth twenty [cubits], and its height thirty cubits.

³ The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was its length, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was its breadth before the house.

⁴ For the house he made windows of fixed lattice work.

⁵ Against the wall of the house he built stories all around, against the walls of the house all around, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side rooms all around.

⁶ The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house all around, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

⁷ The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

⁸ The door for the middle side rooms was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.

⁹ So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

¹⁰ He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

¹¹ The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

¹² "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.

¹³ I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel."

¹⁴ So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

¹⁵ He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

¹⁶ He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

¹⁷ The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

¹⁸ There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

¹⁹ He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh.

²⁰ Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.

²¹ So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

²² The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.

²³ In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

²⁴ Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

²⁵ The other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

²⁶ The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

²⁷ He set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

²⁸ He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

²⁹ He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

³⁰ The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, inside and outside.

³¹ For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel [and] door posts were a fifth part [of the wall].

³² So [he made] two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.

³³ So also made he for the entrance of the temple door posts of olive wood, out of a fourth part [of the wall];

³⁴ and two doors of fir wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

³⁵ He carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

³⁶ He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

³⁷ In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.

³⁸ In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.