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

I said, “What is it?”

He said, “This is the ephah[a] basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land (and behold, a talent[b] of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah[c] basket.” He 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.

Then I lifted 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:6 An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or about 2/3 of a bushel.
  2. 5:7 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.
  3. 5:7 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel