The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
The Bible in Basic English BBE
1 Again I raised my eyes, and I saw in front of me a flying scroll.
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Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.
2 He said to me, "What do you see?" I replied, "I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.
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And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.
3 Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of all the land; for [according to what is written] on one side, everyone who steals will be swept away; and [according to what is written] on the other side, everyone who swears will be swept away.
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Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.
4 'I will release it,' says ADONAI-Tzva'ot, 'and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name; it will stay there inside the house and consume it completely, even its timbers and stones.'"
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And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.
5 Then the angel speaking with me went forward and said to me, "Now raise your eyes, and see what this thing is, passing by."
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And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.
6 I asked, "What is it?" He said, "This is the eifah-measure [a one-bushel dry-measure] passing by." Then he added, "This is their eye in all the land."
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And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land.
7 Next I saw a lead disc lifted up to reveal a woman sitting in the eifah.
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And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.
8 He said, "This is Evil." He threw her down into the eifah and pressed the lead weight over its opening.
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And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.
9 I raised my eyes and saw two women coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like those of a stork. They lifted the eifah up between the earth and the sky.
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And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven.
10 I asked the angel speaking with me, "Where are they taking the eifah?"
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And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah?
11 He answered me, "To build it a shrine in the land of Shin'ar. When it's ready, [the eifah] will be set down there on its base."
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And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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