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A Flying Scroll
I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.
I looked up again and saw a scroll flying through the air.
The Flying Scroll
Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.
Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll.
And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.”
Then he said to me, “This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side of the scroll says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the whole land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.
And this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: I am sending this curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone who swears falsely using my name. And my curse will remain in that house and completely destroy it — even its timbers and stones.”
“I will make it go forth,” declares the LORD of hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones.”
A Woman in a Basket
Then the angel who was talking with me came forward and said, “Look up and see what’s coming.”
Then the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth.”
I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their appearance in all the land
Then the heavy lead cover was lifted off the basket, and there was a woman sitting inside it.
(and behold, a lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.”
The angel said, “The woman’s name is Wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and closed the heavy lid again.
Then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and cast the lead weight on its opening.
Then I looked up and saw two women flying toward us, gliding on the wind. They had wings like a stork, and they picked up the basket and flew into the sky.
Then 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 stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
“Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel.
I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?”
Then he said to me, “To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”