³ He stretched out what appeared to be a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God^(A) to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the inner gate that faces north, where the offensive statue that provokes jealousy^(B) was located.

²⁴ The Spirit lifted me up^(A) and brought me to Chaldea and to the exiles in a vision from the Spirit of God. After the vision I had seen left me,