Ezekiel 1:1-3

Ezekiel’s Inaugural Vision 1In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God. 2On the fifth of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin—

3the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians. Or Chaldeans There the hand of the LORD was on him.