Zechariah 5:5-11
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Seventh Vision: The Woman in a Basket
5 Then the angel who spoke with me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what this is that is coming out.” 6 I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is a basket[a] coming out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity[b] in the whole land.” 7 Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket![c] 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness.” So he thrust her back into the basket[d] and pressed the leaden weight down on its mouth.(A) 9 Then I looked up and saw two women coming forward. The wind was in their wings; they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket[e] between earth and sky. 10 Then I said to the angel who spoke with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”[f] 11 He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it, and when this is prepared, they will set it down there on its base.”(B)
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Zechariah 5:5-11
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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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