OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Zechariah 5:8

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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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Zechariah 5:5–11

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.”

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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.

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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