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Zacarias 5:5-11

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5 Então saiu o anjo, que falava comigo, e me disse: levanta agora os teus olhos, e vê que é isto que sai.
6 Eu perguntei: Que é isto? Respondeu ele: Isto é uma efa que sai. E disse mais: Esta é a iniqüidade em toda a terra.
7 E eis que foi levantada a tampa de chumbo, e uma mulher estava sentada no meio da efa.
8 Prosseguiu o anjo: Esta é a impiedade. E ele a lançou dentro da efa, e pôs sobre a boca desta o peso de chumbo.
9 Então levantei os meus olhos e olhei, e eis que vinham avançando duas mulheres com o vento nas suas asas, pois tinham asas como as da cegonha; e levantaram a efa entre a terra e o céu.
10 Perguntei ao anjo que falava comigo: Para onde levam elas a efa?
11 Respondeu-me ele: Para lhe edificarem uma casa na terra de Sinar; e, quando a casa for preparada, a efa será colocada ali no seu lugar.

Zacarias 5:5-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO ZECHARIAH 5

This chapter treats of the judgments of God upon the wicked Jews for their sins and impieties, the measure of which was filled up, and of the execution of them, which are represented in two visions: the first is of a flying roll, which signifies the curse of God, and is described by its measure, the length being twenty cubits, and the breadth ten; and by the extent of it, it reaching to the whole earth, and particularly to thieves and false swearers, who shall be cut off by it; and by the certainty of its coming into the houses of such, and the utter desolation it should there make, Zec 5:1-4 and the other is the vision of an ephah, and a woman sitting in it, and a talent of lead cast upon the mouth of it, which signified wickedness, Zec 5:5-8 this "ephah" is seen to be lifted up between earth and heaven by two women, who are said to have wings like the wings of storks, and the wind to be in them; and who are said by the angel to carry the "ephah" into the land of Shinar, to build it a house, that it might be established and settled upon its own base, Zec 5:9-11.

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