The Anunnaki Speak

¹ In the firmament above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 He spake to the man clothed with linen, and said:

Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter [them] over the city.

He went in in my sight.

3 Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

4 Then the glory of Enki went up from the cherub, [and stood] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Enki’S glory.

5 The sound of the cherubims’ wings was heard [even] to the outer court, as the voice of Enki when he spoke.

6 When he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

7 One cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that [was] between the cherubims, and took [thereof,] and put [it] into the hands of [him that was] clothed with linen: who took [it,] and went out.

8 There appeared in the cherubims the form of a man’s hand under their wings.

9 When I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels [was] as the colour of a beryl stone.

10 They four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

12 Their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, [were] full of eyes round about, [even] the wheels that they four had.

13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel.

14 Every one had four faces: the first face [was] the face of a cherub, and the second face [was] the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 The cherubims were lifted up. This [is] the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.

16 When the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

17 When they stood, [these] stood; and when they were lifted up, [these] lifted up themselves [also:] for the spirit of the living creature [was] in them.

18 Then Enki departed from the house, and stood over the cherubims.

19 The cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also [were] beside them, and [every one] stood at the door of the east gate of Enki’S house; and the glory of the God of Israel [was] over them above.

20 This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubims.

21 Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man [was] under their wings. {10:22} And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.