CHAPTER 5
1And again I raised my eyes and saw and, look, a flying scroll. 2And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.” 3And he said to me, “This is the imprecation going out to all the land. Whoever steals, as on one side of it, has not been condemned, and whoever swears, as on the other side of it, has not been condemned. 4I have brought it out, said the LORD of Armies, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely in My name and lodge within his house and make an utter end of it, with its timbers and with its stones.” 5And the messenger speaking to me came out and said to me, “Raise your eyes, pray, and see what is this going out.” 6And I said, “What is this?” And he said, “This is a measuring basin going out.” And he said, “This is their crime through all the land.” 7And, look, an ingot of lead was being lifted, and there was a certain woman seated in the basin. 8And he said, “This is Wickedness,” and he flung her down within the basin and flung the lead stone over its opening. 9And I raised my eyes and saw and, look, two women were going out, and there was wind in their wings, and they had wings like the wings of a stork. And they lifted the basin between the earth and the heavens. 10And I said to the messenger speaking to me, “Where are they taking the basin?” 11And he said to me, “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar, and it shall be founded, and they shall set it down there on its firm place.”