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And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the [a]ephah (grain basket) going forth. This,” he continued, “is their appearance throughout the land(A) (and behold, a [round, flat] lead [b]cover was lifted up); and there sat a woman inside the ephah.” Then he said, “This is Wickedness (Godlessness)!” And he threw her back down into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead cover on its opening.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:6 The ephah (a bushel basket for collecting grain) that was used by farmers was approximately 1.05 bushels, but it would be much larger in this vision.
  2. Zechariah 5:7 The Hebrew word for the cover is also used for a talent weight. Metal ingots were cast in the form of a flat disk.

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