1 T hen again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

Again I lifted up my eyes and behold, I saw a scroll flying or floating in the air!

2 H e said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”

And the angel said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits or thirty feet and its breadth is ten cubits or fifteen feet.

3 T hen he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off from henceforth according to it, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off from henceforth according to it.

4 I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

I will bring forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who swears falsely by My name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house and shall consume it, both its timber and its stones.

5 T hen the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing.”

Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that goes forth.

6 I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land

And I said, What is it? And he said, This that goes forth is an ephah. This, he continued, is the symbol of the sinners mentioned above and is the resemblance of their iniquity throughout the whole land.

7 ( and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.”

And behold, a round, flat weight of lead was lifted and there sat a woman in the midst of the ephah.

8 H e said, “This is Wickedness”; and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

And he said, This is lawlessness (wickedness)! And he thrust her back into the ephah and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth of it!

9 T hen lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.

Then lifted I up my eyes and looked, and behold, there were two women coming forward! 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 heavens.

10 T hen I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”

Then said I to the angel who talked with me, Where are they taking the ephah?

11 H e said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”

And he said to me, To the land of Shinar to build it a house, and when it is finished, to set up the ephah there upon its own base.