¹Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw , and behold , a flying scroll .

²He said to me , “What do you see ?”

I answered, “I see a flying scroll ; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”

³Then he said to me , “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land , for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side ; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side .

⁴I will cause it to go out ,” says the LORD of Armies , “and it will enter into the house of the thief , and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name ; and it will remain in the middle of his house , and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

⁵Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me , “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that is appearing .”

⁶I said , “What is it ?”

He said , “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land—

⁷and behold , a lead cover weighing one talent was lifted up —and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.”[#5:7 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.; #5:7 1 ephah is about 22 litres or about 2/3 of a bushel]

⁸He said , “This is Wickedness ;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the lead weight on its mouth .

⁹Then I lifted up my eyes and saw , and behold , there were two women; and the wind was in their wings . Now they had wings like the wings of a stork , and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky .

¹⁰Then I said to the angel who talked with me , “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”

¹¹He said to me , “To build her a house in the land of Shinar . When it is prepared , she will be set there in her own place .”