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¶ Now it came to passe in the thirtieth yeere, in the fourth moneth, in the fifth day of the moneth, (as I was among the captiues by the riuer of Chebar) that the heauens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

1611 marginal noteHebr. captiuitie.

The word of the LORD came expresly vnto Ezekiel the Priest, the sonne of Buzi, in the land of the Caldeans, by the riuer Chebar, and the hand of the LORD was there vpon him.

1611 marginal noteHebr. Iehezkel.

¶ Now as I behelde the liuing creatures: behold one wheele vpon the earth by the liuing creatures, with his foure faces.

And when the liuing creatures went, the wheeles went by them: and when the liuing creatures were lift vp from the earth, the wheels were lift vp.

¶ Then I came to them of the captiuity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the riuer of Chebar, and I sate where they sate, and remained there astonished among them seuen daies.

Then I arose and went forth into the plaine, and behold, the glory of the LORD stood there as the glory which I saw by the riuer of Chebar, and I fell on my face.

1611 marginal noteChap. 1.

And thy meate which thou shalt eat, shalbe by weight twentie shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

Thou shalt drinke also water by measure, the sixt part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drinke.

Moreouer he said vnto me, Sonne of man, behold, I wil breake the staffe of bread in Ierusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care, and they shal drinke water by measure, and with astonishment:

1611 marginal noteLeuit. 26.26. chap 5.16. and 13.13.

¶ A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the middest of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee: and I will scatter a third part into all the windes, and I wil draw out a sword after them.