In Context

2 He said to me, |What do you see?| I answered, |I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits.|

3 Then he said to me, |This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

4 I will cause it to go out,| says Yahweh of Armies, |and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.|

5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, |Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing.|

6 I said, |What is it?| He said, |This is the ephah basket that is appearing.| He said moreover, |This is their appearance in all the land

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

Zechariah 5:5 in Other Translations