Then (A)the angel who had been speaking with me went out and said to me, “Now raise your eyes and see what this is that is going forth.” And I said, “What is it?” Then he said, “This is the [a](B)ephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their [b]appearance in all the [c]land. And behold, a lead cover was lifted up.” He continued, “And this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.” Then he said, “This is (C)Wickedness!” And he thrust her into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead weight on its [d]opening. Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of the (D)stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens. 10 So 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]temple 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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Notas al pie

  1. Zechariah 5:6 I.e., a measuring basket, about 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters, and so throughout the ch
  2. Zechariah 5:6 Lit eye; some ancient versions wrongdoing
  3. Zechariah 5:6 Or earth
  4. Zechariah 5:8 Lit mouth
  5. Zechariah 5:11 Lit house

Zechariah’s Seventh Vision

And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up![a] See what this is going out.” And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket[b] going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity[c] throughout all the earth. And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket.[d] And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket,[e] and threw the lead cover on top of it.[f] And I looked up[g] and saw, and look!—two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket[h] between the earth and the sky.[i] 10 And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”[j] 11 And he said to me, “To build for it a house[k] in the land of Shinar,[l] and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”

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Notas al pie

  1. Zechariah 5:5 Literally “Lift, please, your eyes!”
  2. Zechariah 5:6 Or “an ephah,” a measure of grain
  3. Zechariah 5:6 Hebrew “eye”; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read “iniquity”
  4. Zechariah 5:7 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  5. Zechariah 5:8 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  6. Zechariah 5:8 That is, on top of the “basket” or “ephah”
  7. Zechariah 5:9 Literally “lifted up my eyes”
  8. Zechariah 5:9 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  9. Zechariah 5:9 Or “heaven”
  10. Zechariah 5:10 Or “ephah,” a measure of grain
  11. Zechariah 5:11 Or “temple”
  12. Zechariah 5:11 That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)