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# Connecting Statement:
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Ezekiel continues to describe his vision.
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# a windstorm
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This is a storm that has a lot of wind.
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# coming from the north
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North is the direction to your left when you look toward the sun while it is rising.
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# a great cloud with fire flashing within it
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This can be translated as a new sentence: "The storm had a very large cloud with fire flashing in it"
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# fire flashing
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Possible meanings are 1) "flashing lightning" or 2) "constant lightning."
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# brightness surrounding it and inside of it
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"a very bright light was around the cloud and inside of it"
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# the color of amber
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"bright yellow like amber" or "bright yellow" or "glowing yellow"
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# amber
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a hard yellow resin that is used as a beautiful decoration on jewelry
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# In the middle
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"Inside the storm"
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# the likeness of four living creatures
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Here the abstract noun "likeness" means that what Ezekiel saw looked like these things. The word can be translated with a verbal phrase. AT: "what looked like four living creatures" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# This was their appearance
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The abstract noun "appearance" can be translated as a verbal phrase. AT: "This is what they looked like" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# They had the likeness of a man
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The abstract noun "appearance" can be translated as a verbal phrase. AT: "The four creatures looked like people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# but they had four faces each, and each of the creatures had four wings
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"but each of them had four different faces and four wings." Each creature had a face on the front, a face on the back, and a face on each side of its head.