Zechariah 5

Chapter 5

The Flying Scroll

¹Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying ^ascroll.

²And he said to me, “^aWhat do you see?” And I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty ¹cubits and its width ten cubits.”

³Then he said to me, “This is the ^acurse that is going forth over the face of the whole ¹land; surely everyone who ^bsteals will be purged away according to ²the writing on one side, and everyone who ^cswears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.

⁴“I will ^amake it go forth,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and it will ^benter the house of the ^cthief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and ^dconsume it with its timber and stones.”

⁵Then ^athe angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth.”

⁶I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ^1aephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their ²appearance in all the ³land

⁷(and behold, a lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.”

⁸Then he said, “This is ^aWickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and cast the lead weight on its ¹opening.

⁹Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and there two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a ^astork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.

¹⁰I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?”

¹¹Then he said to me, “To build a ¹temple for her in the land of ^aShinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”