Zechariah 5:1-11
5 Again I looked up, and I saw a flying scroll.
2 He asked me: “What do you see?”
I replied: “I see a flying scroll, which is 20 cubits* long and 10 cubits wide.”
3 Then he said to me: “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the earth, because everyone who steals,+ as written on its one side, has gone unpunished; and everyone who makes a sworn oath,+ as written on its other side, has gone unpunished.
4 ‘I have sent it out,’ declares Jehovah of armies, ‘and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of the one who makes a false oath in my name; and it will remain inside that house and consume it and its timbers and its stones.’”
5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and said to me: “Look up, please, and see what is going out.”
6 So I asked: “What is it?”
He replied: “This is the eʹphah container* that is going out.” He continued: “This is their appearance in all the earth.”
7 And I saw that the round lid of lead was lifted up, and there was a woman sitting inside the container.
8 So he said: “This is Wickedness.” Then he threw her back into the eʹphah container, after which he thrust the lead weight over its mouth.
9 Then I looked up and saw two women coming forward, and they were soaring in the wind. They had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted up the container between the earth and heaven.
10 So I asked the angel who was speaking with me: “Where are they taking the eʹphah container?”
11 He replied: “To the land of Shiʹnar*+ to build her a house; and when it is prepared, she will be deposited there in her proper place.”
Footnotes
^ Lit., “the ephah,” here referring to a container or basket used to measure an ephah. An ephah equaled 22 L (20 dry qt). See App. B14.
^ That is, Babylonia.
