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Then he said to me, “This is the (A)curse that is going forth over the face of the whole [a]land; surely everyone who (B)steals will be [b]purged away according to [c]the writing on one side, and everyone who (C)swears will be [d]purged away according to the writing on the other side. I will (D)make it go forth,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “and it will (E)enter the house of the (F)thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and (G)consume it with its timber and stones.”

A Woman in an Ephah

Then (H)the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:3 Or earth
  2. Zechariah 5:3 Lit free (from covenant community), cf. Gen 24:8, 41
  3. Zechariah 5:3 Lit it
  4. Zechariah 5:3 Lit free (from covenant community), cf. Gen 24:8, 41

And he said to me, “This is the curse(A) that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief(B) will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely(C) will be banished. The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely(D) by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.(E)’”

The Woman in a Basket

Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.”

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