Zechariah 5
5
The Vision of the Flying Scroll
1Then I turned and lifted up my eyes and saw a flying scroll.
2#Zec 4:2He asked me, “What do you see?”
And I responded, “I see a flying scroll with its length as twenty cubits and its width as ten cubits.”#About 30 feet long and 15 feet wide, or 9 meters long and 4.5 meters wide.
3#Ex 20:15; Isa 24:6He said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of all the land. Everyone who steals will be purged according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears falsely will be purged according to the writing on the other side. 4#Lev 14:34–45; Job 18:15I will send it out, says the Lord of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain in his house and consume it, with its timber and stones.”
The Vision of the Woman in the Basket
5#Zec 1:9Then the angel who was speaking with me came out, saying, “Now lift up your eyes and see what this is that is going forth.”
6#Am 8:5And I asked, “What is it?”
He said, “This is the ephah basket going forth. This represents their iniquity throughout all the land.”
7The lead cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah basket. 8And he said, “This is wickedness.” And he threw her back into the basket and then thrust back the lead stone over its opening.
9Then I lifted my eyes and saw coming forward two women. There was wind in their wings, and the wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up and carried the ephah basket between heaven and earth.
10Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they carrying the basket?”
11#Ge 10:10; 11:2He responded, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar. And when the house is established, the basket will be set there on a pedestal.”
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Zecharyah 5
5
1Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and hinei a megillah flying!
2And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered: I see a megillah flying; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
3Then said he unto me, This is ha'alah (the curse) that goeth forth over the face of kol ha'aretz; for every ganav that stealeth shall be purged out#5:3 i.e., banished according to what it says on one side of the megillah; and every perjurer that sweareth falsely shall be purged out according to what it says on the other side.#5:3 Ex 20:7,15
4I will send it#5:4 ha'alah, the curse forth, saith Hashem Tzva'os, and it shall enter into the bais haganav, and into the bais of him that sweareth falsely biShmi (by My Name); and it#5:4 ha'alah shall remain inside his bais, and shall destroy it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
5Then the malach that spoke with me came forward, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that cometh into view.
6And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the eifah (measuring basket) going out. He said moreover, This is their#5:6 i.e., that of ganavim and perjurors appearance throughout kol ha'aretz.
7And, hinei, there was lifted up a lead cover; and there was an isha (woman) yoshevet (sitting) inside the eifah (measuring basket)!
8And he said, This is HaRishah (The Wickedness). And he pushed her inside the eifah; and he pushed the lead cover over the mouth of the eifah.
9Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, hinei, there came forth two nashim (women), and the ruach (wind) was in their kenafayim (wings); for they had kenafayim (wings) like the kenafayim of a stork: and they lifted up the eifah between ha'aretz and HaShomayim.
10Then said I to the malach that spoke with me, Whither are these taking the eifah?
11And he said unto me, To build it a bais#5:11 i.e., ziggurat in Eretz Shinar (Babylon); and it shall be placed there and set upon its own base.
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