The Message Bible MSG
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22 Then the cherubim spread their wings, with the wheels beside them and the Glory of the God of Israel hovering over them.
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Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
23 The Glory of God ascended from within the city and rested on the mountain to the east of the city.
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The glory of the LORD went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it.
24 Then, still in the vision given me by the Spirit of God, the Spirit took me and carried me back to the exiles in Babylon. And then the vision left me.
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The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the exiles in Babylonia in the vision given by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me,
25 I told the exiles everything that God had shown me.
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and I told the exiles everything the LORD had shown me.
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