Zechariah 5:5-11
Legacy Standard Bible
A Woman in an Ephah
5 Then (A)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.” 6 So I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the [a](B)ephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their [b]appearance in all the [c]land 7 (and behold, a lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.” 8 Then he said, “This is (C)Wickedness!” And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead weight on its [d]opening. 9 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a (D)stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens. 10 And I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?” 11 Then he said to me, “To build a [e]house for her in the land of (E)Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”
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- Zechariah 5:6 A vessel containing approx. 21 qt. or 23 l
- Zechariah 5:6 Lit eye; some ancient versions iniquity
- Zechariah 5:6 Or earth
- Zechariah 5:8 Lit mouth
- Zechariah 5:11 Or temple
Zechariah 5:5-11
International Standard Version
The Vision of the Basket
5 Then the angel who had been talking with me stepped forward and told me, “Please look up and see what’s going out.”
6 So I asked, “What is it?”[a]
He replied, “This is a basket[b] making its appearance.” He also said, “This is what it appears to be in[c] the entire land.”
The Vision of the Woman in the Basket
7 Look, a round lead cover was being lifted, and there was one woman seated inside the basket! 8 And the angel[d] said, “This is evil!” So he shoved her back into the basket and snapped the round, lead cover over the opening.
The Vision of the Two Winged Women
9 Then I looked up to see two women coming forward with the wind filling their wings. (They had wings like those of a stork.) They took up the basket, holding it between the earth and sky.
10 So I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”
11 He answered me, “To the land of Shinar,[e] so they can build a temple to the woman in the basket.[f] Then when its preparations are complete, the basket[g] will be set there in its place.”
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- Zechariah 5:6 Lit. is she
- Zechariah 5:6 Lit. ephah; i.e. a measure of dry grain about 20 dry quarts in capacity; and so throughout the chapter
- Zechariah 5:6 Lit. is the eyes in
- Zechariah 5:8 Lit. he
- Zechariah 5:11 I.e. the Babylon area
- Zechariah 5:11 Lit. to her
- Zechariah 5:11 Lit. complete, it
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