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Zechariah 5:1–2

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Vision Six: The Flying Scroll

5:1Then I turned to look, and there was a flying scroll! 5:2Someone asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”1

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  1. 1 Heb “twenty cubits … ten cubits” (so , ). These dimensions (“thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide”) can hardly be referring to the scroll when unrolled since that would be all out of proportion to the normal ratio, in which the scroll would be 10 to 15 times as long as it was wide. More likely, the scroll is 15 feet thick when rolled, a hyperbole expressing the enormous amount and the profound significance of the information it contains.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll! And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.

He asked me, “What do you see?”

I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I looked up again and saw a flying scroll. “What do you see?” he asked me.

“I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”

NLTNew Living Translation

I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.

“What do you see?” the angel asked.

“I see a flying scroll,” I replied. “It appears to be about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I looked up again, and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll! And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.