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Zechariah 5

Zechariah’s Sixth Vision

1 ⌞I looked up again⌟, ^{▼▼Literally “I did again, I lifted up my eyes”} and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! 2 And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.” ^{▼▼That is, thirty feet by fifteen feet} 3 And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished ^{▼▼Many translations render this verb as “will be cut off”} according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. 4 ‘I have sent it out,’ ⌞declares⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “declaration of”} Yahweh of hosts, ‘and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing ⌞falsely by my name⌟, ^{▼▼Literally “by my name to lie”} and it will spend the night in that ^{▼▼Hebrew “his”} house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’ ”

Zechariah’s Seventh Vision

5 And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “⌞Please look up⌟! ^{▼▼Literally “Lift, please, your eyes!”} See what this is going out.” 6 And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket ^{▼▼Or “an ephah,” a measure of grain} going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity ^{▼▼Hebrew “eye”; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read “iniquity”} throughout all the earth. 7 And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket. ^{▼▼Or “ephah,” a measure of grain} 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket, ^{▼▼Or “ephah,” a measure of grain} and threw the lead cover on top of it. ^{▼▼That is, on top of the “basket” or “ephah”} 9 And I ⌞looked up⌟ ^{▼▼Literally “lifted up my eyes”} and saw, and look!—two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket ^{▼▼Or “ephah,” a measure of grain} between the earth and the sky. ^{▼▼Or “heaven”} 10 And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?” ^{▼▼Or “ephah,” a measure of grain} 11 And he said to me, “To build for it a house ^{▼▼Or “temple”} in the land of Shinar, ^{▼▼That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)} and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”