1 I looked up again and saw a flying book.

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

2 A nd the angel said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a flying book, as long as ten long steps and as wide as five long steps.”

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.

3 T hen he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over all the land. Everyone who steals will be cut off by what is written on one side. And everyone who swears will be cut off by what is written on the other side.

Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.

4 I will send it out,” says the Lord of All, “and it will go into the house of the robber and the house of the one who makes false promises using My name. It will spend the night in that house and destroy it, both its wood and stones.” Zechariah Sees a Woman in a Basket

I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

5 T hen the angel who was speaking with me came out and said to me, “Look up and see what this is that is going out.”

Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

6 A nd I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the large basket going out.” And he said, “This is the sin of all the people in all the land.”

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.

7 T hen the lead cover was lifted up, and there was a woman sitting in the large basket.

And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

8 T he angel said, “This is Sin!” And he threw her back into the basket and threw the lead weight on its opening.

And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

9 T hen I looked up and saw two women coming out with the wind in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted up the large basket between earth and heaven.

Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.

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

Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?

11 H e said to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar. When it is ready, it will be put in its place.”

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.