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Zechariah 5
Two visions of removal. First a giant flying scroll, twenty by ten cubits, carrying a curse that targets two specific crimes — theft and false swearing — entering the offender's house to consume it, timber and stones. Then an ephah basket with a heavy lead lid. When the cover lifts, a woman named Wickedness sits inside; the angel forces her back down and seals the lid. Two winged women carry the basket off to the land of Shinar.
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Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
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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.”
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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.
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I will cause it to go out,” says the LORD 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.”
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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.”
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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—
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and behold, a lead cover weighing one talent was lifted up—and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.”
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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.
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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.
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Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”
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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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Então, levantei novamente os meus olhos e vi, e eis um rolo voando.
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Ele me disse: “O que você vê?” Eu respondi: “Vejo um rolo voando; seu comprimento é de vinte côvados, e sua largura de dez côvados.”
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Então ele me disse: “Esta é a maldição que sai sobre a face de toda a terra, pois todo aquele que rouba será eliminado de acordo com ela de um lado; e todo aquele que jura falsamente será eliminado de acordo com ela do outro lado.
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Eu farei com que ela saia”, diz o SENHOR dos Exércitos, “e ela entrará na casa do ladrão, e na casa daquele que jura falsamente pelo meu nome; e ela permanecerá no meio da sua casa, e a destruirá com a sua madeira e as suas pedras.”
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Então o anjo que falava comigo se adiantou e me disse: “Levante agora os seus olhos e veja o que é isso que está aparecendo.”
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Eu disse: “O que é isso?” Ele disse: “Este é o cesto de efa que está aparecendo.” Ele disse ainda: “Esta é a aparência deles em toda a terra—
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e eis que uma tampa de chumbo pesando um talento foi levantada—e havia uma mulher sentada no meio do cesto de efa .”
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Ele disse: “Esta é a Impiedade”; e a lançou para o meio do cesto de efa; e lançou o peso de chumbo sobre a sua boca.
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Então levantei os meus olhos e vi, e eis que havia duas mulheres; e o vento estava em suas asas. Ora, elas tinham asas como as asas de uma cegonha, e levantaram o cesto de efa entre a terra e o céu.
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Então eu disse ao anjo que falava comigo: “Para onde elas estão levando o cesto de efa?”
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Ele me disse: “Para edificar-lhe uma casa na terra de Sinar. Quando estiver preparada, ela será colocada lá em seu próprio lugar.”
Sin named, weighed, and exported
After chapters about rebuilding, the focus turns to what must be cleared out of the restored land. The scroll isn't vague: it singles out the thief and the perjurer, and pursues sin into the home rather than waiting for it in public.
The ephah scene personifies wickedness as a woman held down by a talent of lead, then literally flown away to Shinar — Babylon's old territory — to be housed there (v.11). Evil isn't merely punished; it's measured, contained, and relocated out of the holy land.
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