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Zechariah 5:3-5
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Zechariah 5:3-5
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3 The speaker went on to say, “This is a curse[a] traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals[b] will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate.” 4 “I will send it out,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”
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5 After this the angelic messenger[c] who had been speaking to me went out and said, “Look, see what is leaving.”
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- Zechariah 5:3 tn The Hebrew word translated “curse” (אָלָה, ʾalah) alludes to the covenant sanctions that attend the violation of God’s covenant with Israel (cf. Deut 29:12, 14, 20-21).
- Zechariah 5:3 sn Stealing and swearing falsely (mentioned later in this verse) are sins against mankind and God respectively and are thus violations of the two major parts of the Ten Commandments. These two stipulations (commandments 8 and 3) represent the whole law.
- Zechariah 5:5 tn See the note on the expression “angelic messenger” in 1:9.
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