Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying ascroll.Jer 36:2; Ezek 2:9; Rev 5:1 2 And 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.”I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.Zech 4:2 3 Then 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 3the writing on the other side.Or earthLit itIs 24:6; 43:28; Jer 26:6Ex 20:15; Lev 19:11; Mal 3:8, 9Lev 19:12; Is 48:1; Jer 5:2; Zech 5:4 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.”Mal 3:5Hos 4:2, 3Jer 2:26Lev 14:34, 35; Job 18:15
5 Then 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.”Zech 1:9 6 I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the 1aephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their 2appearance in all the 3landI.e. Approx one buLit eye; some ancient versions read iniquityOr earthLev 19:36; Amos 8:5 7 (and behold, a lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.” 8 Then he said, “This is aWickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and cast the lead weight on its 1opening.Lit mouthHos 12:7; Amos 8:5; Mic 6:11 9 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 astork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.Lev 11:13, 19; Ps 104:17; Jer 8:7 10 I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?” 11 Then 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.”Lit houseGen 10:10; 11:2; 14:1; Is 11:11; Dan 1:2