^5:6I asked, “What is it?” And he replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain⁵ that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said, “This is their ‘eye’⁶ throughout all the earth.”

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5 Heb “[This is] the ephah.” An ephah was a liquid or solid measure of about a bushel (five gallons or just under twenty liters). By metonymy it refers here to a measuring container (probably a basket) of that quantity.
6 The and read עֲוֹנָם (’avonam, “their iniquity,” so ; similar) for the עֵינָם (’enam, “their eye”), a reading that is consistent with the identification of the woman in v. 8 as wickedness, but one that is unnecessary. In 4:10 the “eye” represented divine omniscience and power; here it represents the demonic counterfeit.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I asked, “What is it?”

He replied, “It is a basket.” And he added, “This is the iniquity of the people throughout the land.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

So I asked, “What is it?”

He responded, “It’s a measuring basket that is approaching.” And he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

NLTNew Living Translation

“What is it?” I asked.

He replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain, and it’s filled with the sins of everyone throughout the land.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And 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.

KJV 1900King James Version

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.

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