The Vision of the Flying Scroll

5 I ·looked up again [^Lturned and lifted my eyes] and saw a flying scroll.

² ·The angel [^LHe] asked me, “What do you see?”

I answered, “I see a flying scroll, ·thirty feet [^Ltwenty cubits] long and ·fifteen feet [^Lten cubits] wide.”

³ And he said to me, “This is the curse that ·will go [or is going out] all over the land. One side says every thief will be ·taken away [banished; purged]. The other side says everyone who ·makes false promises [swears falsely] will be ·taken away [banished; purged]. ⁴ The Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts] says, ‘I will send it to the houses of thieves and to those who ·use my name to make false promises [swear falsely]. The scroll will stay in that person’s house and destroy it with its wood and stones.’”

The Vision of the Woman

⁵ Then the ·angel [messenger] who was talking with me came forward and said to me, “·Look up [^LLift up your eyes] and see what is ·going out [or coming; appearing].”

⁶ “What is it?” I asked.

He answered, “It is a ·measuring basket [^Lephah] going out.” He also said, “It is ·a symbol of the people’s sins [^Ltheir iniquity; or their appearance; ^Ltheir eye] in all the land.”

⁷ Then the lid made of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket. ⁸ The angel said, “The woman ·stands for [^Lis] wickedness.” Then he pushed her back into the basket and put the lid back down.

⁹ Then I ·looked up [^Llifted my eyes] and saw two women going out with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and the ·sky [heaven].

¹⁰ I asked the ·angel [messenger] who was talking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

¹¹ “They are going to Babylonia to build a ·temple [^Lhouse] for it,” he answered. “When ·the temple [^Lit] is ready, they will set the basket there ·in its place [or on its base/pedestal].”