Zechariah, Chapter 5

1. Then I turned, and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold a flying scroll.    2. And he said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying scroll; the length of it is twenty cubits, and the breadth of it ten cubits.    3. Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: for every one who steals shall be cut off as written on this side according to it; and every one who swears shall be cut off as written on that side according to it.    4. I will bring it forth, says the LORD 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 remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.    5. Then the angel who talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that goes forth.    6. And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their likeness through all the earth.    7. And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sits in the midst of the ephah.    8. And he said, This is wickedness. And he pushed her into the midst of the ephah; and he threw the weight of lead down upon its mouth.    9. Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.    10. Then said I to the angel who talked with me, Where are these taking the ephah?    11. And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon its own base.