The Flying Scroll
1 Then again I looked up and saw a flying scroll.
2 He said to me, “What do you see?”
I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is 30 feet and its width 15 feet.”
3 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face 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 the Lord of Hosts, “and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of those who swear falsely in my name, and it will remain in the midst of their house and will destroy it, its timber and its stones.”
The Woman in a Basket
5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what this is that is appearing.”
6 I said, “What is it?”
He said, “This is the measuring basket.” He said moreover, “It is the sins of all the land 7 (and a lead cover was lifted up), and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the measuring basket.”
8 He said, “This is Wickedness,” and he threw her down into the middle of the measuring basket, and he threw the weight of lead on its opening.
9 Then I looked up, and 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 measuring basket between the earth and sky.
10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they carrying the measuring 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.”