NASB
"(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile,"
— Ezekiel 1:2, NASB
“In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,”
“In the fifthdayof the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity, ”
“In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,”
“(On the fifth day of the month– it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile–”
“On the fifth day of the month, the same was the fifth year of the captivity of king Joachin,”
“On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,”
“In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,”
Now it came about in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was by the river Chebar among the exiles, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
(On the fifth of the month in the fifth year of King Jehoiachin's exile,
the word of the LORD came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and there the hand of the LORD came upon him.)
As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire.
Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.