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1 Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.

2 He said to me, “ What do you see?” I answered, “ I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width 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 middle 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 this is 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 lead cover weighing one talent was lifted up — and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.”

8 He said, “ This is Wickedness;” and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the lead weight on its mouth.

9 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, there were two women; and the wind was in their wings. Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.

10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “ Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”

11 He said to me, “ To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.”

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