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I looked up and I saw something that looked like a man. The lower part of his body looked like fire. Above that, his body looked like bright metal. He put out something in the shape of a hand. He took hold of the hair on my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up, high in the sky, and took me to Jerusalem.[a] This happened in the vision which God gave to me. I came to the north gate of the temple's inside yard. In that place there was a disgusting idol that made God very angry. Then I saw that the bright glory of Israel's God was there. It was like the glory that I had seen beside the River Kebar.

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  1. 8:3 ‘The Spirit’ or ‘a wind’.

I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man.[a] From what appeared to be his waist down he was like fire, and from there up his appearance was as bright as glowing metal.(A) He stretched out what looked like a hand(B) and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up(C) between earth and heaven and in visions(D) of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court,(E) where the idol that provokes to jealousy(F) stood. And there before me was the glory(G) of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain.(H)

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  1. Ezekiel 8:2 Or saw a fiery figure