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A Flying Scroll

Then I lifted up my eyes again and saw, and behold, a flying (A)scroll. And he said to me, “(B)What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll; its length is [a]twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.” Then he said to me, “This is the (C)curse that is going forth over the face of the whole [b]land; surely everyone who (D)steals will be [c]purged away according to [d]the writing on one side, and everyone who (E)swears will be [e]purged away according to the writing on the other side. I will (F)make it go forth,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “and it will (G)enter the house of the (H)thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and (I)consume it with its timber and stones.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:2 Approx. 30 ft. long and 15 ft. wide or 9 m and 4.5 m
  2. Zechariah 5:3 Or earth
  3. Zechariah 5:3 Lit free (from covenant community), cf. Gen 24:8, 41
  4. Zechariah 5:3 Lit it
  5. Zechariah 5:3 Lit free (from covenant community), cf. Gen 24:8, 41