Zechariah 5

New American Standard Bible

The Flying Scroll

5 Then I raised my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying ^(A)scroll. ² And he said to me, “^(B)What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll; its length is ^[a]twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.” ³ Then he said to me, “This is the ^(C)curse that is going forth over the face of the entire ^[b]land; everyone who ^(D)steals certainly will be purged away according to ^[c]the writing on one side, and everyone who ^(E)swears falsely will be purged away according to ^[d]the writing on the other side. ⁴ I will ^(F)make it go forth,” declares the Lord of armies, “and it will ^(G)enter the house of the ^(H)thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and ^(I)destroy it with its timber and stones.”

⁵ Then ^(J)the angel who had been speaking with me went out and said to me, “Now raise your eyes and see what this is that is going forth.” ⁶ And I said, “What is it?” Then he said, “This is the ^[e](K)ephah going forth.” Again he said, “This is their ^[f]appearance in all the ^[g]land. ⁷ And behold, a lead cover was lifted up.” He continued, “And this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.” ⁸ Then he said, “This is ^(L)Wickedness!” And he thrust her into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead weight on its ^[h]opening. ⁹ Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of the ^(M)stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens. ¹⁰ So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?” ¹¹ Then he said to me, “To build a ^[i]temple for her in the land of ^(N)Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”