⁵ 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.”

⁶ 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 ⁷ (and behold, a talent^[b] of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah^[c] basket.” ⁸ 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.

⁹ 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.”