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I ate no savory food, took no meat or wine, and did not anoint myself at all until the end of the three weeks.

On the twenty-fourth day of the first month[a] I was on the bank of the great river, the Tigris. As I looked up, I saw a man[b] dressed in linen with a belt of fine gold around his waist.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:4 The first month: the month Nisan (mid-March to mid-April).
  2. 10:5–6 The heavenly person of the vision is probably the angel Gabriel, as in 9:21. Chrysolite: or topaz, a yellowish precious stone. Cf. the visions in Ez 1 and 8.