OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Zechariah 5:7

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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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Zechariah 5:4–10

4

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.”

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—

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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.”

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?”

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Source notes

Notes from World English Bible Updated

  1. A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds.
  2. 1 ephah is about 22 liters or about 2/3 of a bushel

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