Zechariah 5:5-11
English Standard Version
A Vision of a Woman in a Basket
5 (A)Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, (B)“Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.” 6 And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is (C)the basket[a] that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity[b] in all the land.” 7 And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket! 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down (D)the leaden weight on its opening.
9 Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! (E)The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they taking the basket?” 11 He said to me, “To the (F)land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.”
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- Zechariah 5:6 Hebrew ephah; also verses 7–11. An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
- Zechariah 5:6 One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts eye
Zechariah 5:5-11
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Seventh Vision: Woman in the Basket
5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Look up and see what this is that is approaching.”
6 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.” 7 Then a lead cover was lifted, and there was a woman(A) sitting inside the basket.(B) 8 “This is Wickedness,” he said. He shoved her down into the basket and pushed the lead weight over its opening. 9 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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- Zechariah 5:6 Lit It’s an ephah
- Zechariah 5:6 One Hb ms, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read eye
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