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The Flying Scroll

¹ Again I looked up, and I saw a ^(C1)scroll flying in the air!² And the angel said to me, "^(C1)What do you see?" And I answered, "I see a ^(F1)flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits (thirty feet) and its width is ten cubits (fifteen feet)."³ Then he said to me, "This is the ^(C1)curse that is going out over the face of the whole land; for everyone who ^(C2)steals will be cut off according to the writing on one side, and everyone who ^(C3)swears oaths falsely shall be cut off according to the writing on the other side. ^(VR1)4 "I will ^(C1)send the curse out," declares the LORD of hosts, "and it will ^(C2)enter the house of the ^(C3)thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night in that house and ^(C4)consume it, both its timber and its stones."

⁵ Then ^(C1)the angel who was speaking with me came forward and said to me, "Now look up and see what this is going forth."⁶ And I said, "What is it?" And he said, "This is the ^(F1)(C1)ephah (grain basket) going forth. This," he continued, "is their appearance throughout the land ^(VR1)7 (and behold, a round, flat lead ^(F1)cover was lifted up); and there sat a woman inside the ephah."⁸ Then he said, "This is ^(C1)Wickedness (Godlessness)!" And he threw her back down into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead cover on its opening.⁹ Then I looked up, and there were two women coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a ^(C1)stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.¹⁰ I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "Where are they taking the ephah?"¹¹ And he said to me, "To the land of ^(C1)Shinar (Babylon) to build a temple for her; and when it is prepared, ^(F1)she shall be set there on her own pedestal."