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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

Sixth Vision: Flying Scroll

I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.(A) “What do you see?” he asked me.

“I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “thirty feet[a] long and fifteen feet[b] wide.”(B)

Then he said to me, “This is the curse(C) that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished,[c] and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished. I will send it out,”(D)—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies—“and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.”(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:2 Lit 20 cubits
  2. 5:2 Lit 10 cubits
  3. 5:3 Or side, will be removed