World English Bible
"In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,"
— Ezekiel 1:2, World English Bible
“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, ”
“(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 happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.
I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness around it, and out of its midst as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
Out of its midst came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.