Zechariah 5

1 And I turn back, and lift up my eyes, and look, and behold, a flying scroll.

Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.

2 And he says to me, “What are you seeing?” And I say, “I am seeing a flying scroll, its length [is] twenty by the cubit, and its breadth [is] ten by the cubit.”

And he said to me, What do thou see? And I answered, I see a flying roll. The length of it is twenty cubits, and the breadth of it ten cubits.

3 And he says to me, “This [is] the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for everyone who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, has been declared innocent, and everyone who has sworn, on the other side, according to it, has been declared innocent.”

Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cut off on the one side according to it, and everyone who swears shall be cut off on the other side according to it.

4 “I have brought it out,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, “and it has come into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who has sworn in My Name with a falsehood, and it has remained in the midst of his house, and has consumed it, both its wood and its stones.”

I will cause it to go forth, says Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

5 And the messenger who is speaking with me goes forth and says to me, “Now lift up your eyes, and [do you] see what this [is] that is coming forth?”

Then the agent who talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what this is that goes forth.

6 And I say, “What [is] it?” And he says, “This—the ephah that is coming forth.” And he says, “This [is] their aspect in all the land.

And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land

7 And behold, a disc of lead lifted up; and this [is] a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.”

(and, behold, a talent of lead was lifted up), and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.

8 And he says, “This [is] the wicked woman.” And he casts her into the midst of the ephah, and casts the weight of lead on its mouth.

And he said, This is Wickedness. And he cast her down into the midst of the ephah, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth of it.

9 And I lift up my eyes, and see, and behold, two women are coming forth, and wind [is] in their wings; and they have wings like wings of the stork, and they lift up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.

Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked. And, behold, there came forth 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 between earth and heaven.

10 And I say to the messenger who is speaking with me, “To where [are] they causing the ephah to go?”

Then I said to the agent who talked with me, Where do these carry the ephah?

11 And he says to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar.” And it has been prepared and has been placed there on its base.

And he said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar. And when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.