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1I looked up again, and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll![#Literally “I did again, I lifted up my eyes”]
2And 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]
3And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it.[#Many translations render this verb as “will be cut off”]
4‘I have sent it out,’ declares 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, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’ ”[#Literally “declaration of”; #Literally “by my name to lie”; #Hebrew “his”]
5And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up! See what this is going out.”[#Literally “Lift, please, your eyes!”]
6And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity throughout all the earth.[#Or “an ephah,” a measure of grain; #Hebrew “eye”; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read “iniquity”]
7And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.[#Or “ephah,” a measure of grain]
8And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket, and threw the lead cover on top of it.[#Or “ephah,” a measure of grain; #That is, on top of the “basket” or “ephah”]
9And I looked up 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 between the earth and the sky.[#Literally “lifted up my eyes”; #Or “ephah,” a measure of grain; #Or “heaven”]
10And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”[#Or “ephah,” a measure of grain]
11And he said to me, “To build for it a house in the land of Shinar, and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”[#Or “temple”; #That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)]