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v1
I looked up again, ^[Literally “I did again, I lifted up my eyes”] and I saw, and look!—a flying scroll!
v2
And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.” ^[That is, thirty feet by fifteen feet]
v3
And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished ^[Many translations render this verb as “will be cut off”] according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it.
v4
‘I have sent it out,’ declares ^[Literally “declaration of”] Yahweh of hosts, ‘and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing falsely by my name, ^[Literally “by my name to lie”] and it will spend the night in that ^[Hebrew “his”] house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.‘“
v5
And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, “Please look up! ^[Literally “Lift, please, your eyes!“] See what this is going out.”
v6
And I asked, “What is it?” And he said, “This is a basket ^[Or “an ephah,” a measure of grain] going out. And he said, “This is their iniquity ^[Hebrew “eye”; other ancient versions (LXX, Syriac) read “iniquity”] throughout all the earth.
v7
And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket. ^[Or “ephah,” a measure of grain]
v8
And he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her back down into the basket, ^[Or “ephah,” a measure of grain] and threw the lead cover on top of it. ^[That is, on top of the “basket” or “ephah”]
v9
And I looked up ^[Literally “lifted up my eyes”] and saw, and look!—two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket ^[Or “ephah,” a measure of grain] between the earth and the sky. ^[Or “heaven”]
v10
And I asked the angel who was talking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?” ^[Or “ephah,” a measure of grain]
v11
And he said to me, “To build for it a house ^[Or “temple”] in the land of Shinar, ^[That is, Babylon (Gen 11:2)] and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site.”