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Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that is appearing.”

I said, “What is it?”

He said, “This is the ephah[a] basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land (and behold, a talent[b] of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah[c] basket.” He said, “This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women, and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky. 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”

11 He said to me, “To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”

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Footnotes

  1. 5:6 An ephah is a measure of volume of about 22 liters, 5.8 U. S. gallons, or about 2/3 of a bushel.
  2. 5:7 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.
  3. 5:7 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

Seventh Vision: Woman in the Basket

Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Look up and see what this is that is approaching.”

So I asked, “What is it?”

He responded, “It’s a measuring basket[a] that is approaching.” And he continued, “This is their iniquity[b] in all the land.” Then a lead cover was lifted, and there was a woman(A) sitting inside the basket.(B) “This is Wickedness,” he said. He shoved her down into the basket and pushed the lead weight over its opening. Then I looked up and saw two women approaching with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork,(C) and they lifted up the basket between earth and sky.

10 So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

11 “To build a shrine for it in the land of Shinar,”(D) he told me. “When that is ready, the basket will be placed there on its pedestal.”

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Footnotes

  1. 5:6 Lit It’s an ephah
  2. 5:6 One Hb ms, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read eye