The Flying Scroll
1 Again I looked up, and I saw a scroll flyingin the air!
2 And the angel said to me, “What do you see?” And I answered, “I see aflying scroll; its length is twenty cubits (thirty feet) and its width is ten cubits (fifteen feet).”
3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of the whole land; for everyone who steals will be cut off according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears [oaths falsely] shall be cut off according to the writing on the other side.
4 I will send the curse out,” declares the Lordof hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night in that house and consume it, both its timber and its stones.”
5 Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and said to me, “Now look up and see what this is going forth.”
6 And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is theephah (grain basket) going forth. This,” he continued, “is their appearance throughout the land
7 (and behold, a [round, flat] leadcover was lifted up); and there sat a woman inside the ephah.”
8 Then he said, “This is Wickedness (Godlessness)!” And he threw her back down into the middle of the ephah and threw the lead cover on its opening.
9 Then I looked up, and there were two women coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
10 I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?”
11 And he said to me, “To the land of Shinar (Babylon) to build a temple for her; and when it is prepared,she shall be set there on her own pedestal.”