Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
1 I looked again, and this time I saw a scroll flying through the air.
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Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.
2 The angel asked me what I saw. I answered, "A scroll flying through the air; it is thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide."
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He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."
3 Then he said to me, "On it is written the curse that is to go out over the whole land. On one side of the scroll it says that every thief will be removed from the land; and on the other side it says that everyone who tells lies under oath will also be taken away.
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Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
4 The Lord Almighty says that he will send this curse out, and it will enter the house of every thief and the house of everyone who tells lies under oath. It will remain in their houses and leave them in ruins."
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I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Hosts, "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 midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."
5 The angel appeared again and said, "Look! Something else is coming!"
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Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing."
6 "What is it?" I asked. He replied, "It is a basket, and it stands for the sin of the whole land."
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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 The basket had a lid made of lead. As I watched, the lid was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman!
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(and, behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket."
8 The angel said, "This represents wickedness." Then he pushed her down into the basket and put the lid back down.
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He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.
9 I looked up and saw two women flying toward me with powerful wings like those of a stork. They picked up the basket and flew off with it.
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Then lifted I 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 I asked the angel, "Where are they taking it?"
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Then said I to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these carrying the ephah basket?"
11 He answered, "To Babylonia, where they will build a temple for it. When the temple is finished, the basket will be placed there to be worshiped."
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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."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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