GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New King James Version NKJV
1 I looked up again and saw a flying scroll.
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Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll.
2 The angel asked me, "What do you see?" "I see a flying scroll," I answered. "It's 30 feet long and 15 feet wide."
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And he said to me, "What do you see?" So I answered, "I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits."
3 Then he said to me, "This is a curse that will go out all over the earth. The one side of the scroll says that every thief will be forced away. The other side of the scroll says that everyone who takes an oath will be forced away.
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Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: 'Every thief shall be expelled,' according to this side of the scroll; and, 'Every perjurer shall be expelled,' according to that side of it."
4 I will send out a curse, declares the LORD of Armies, and it will enter the houses of thieves and the houses of those who take oaths in my name. It will stay in their houses and destroy the timber and stone."
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"I will send out the curse," says the Lord of hosts; "It shall enter the house of the thief And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timber and stones."
5 The angel who was speaking with me came forward. He said, "Look up, and see what's coming."
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Then the angel who talked with me came out and said to me, "Lift your eyes now, and see what this is that goes forth."
6 "What is it?" I asked. "A basket is coming," he said. Then he added, "This is what the people's sins look like all over the earth."
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So I asked, "What is it?" And he said, "It is a basket that is going forth." He also said, "This is their resemblance throughout the earth:
7 A lead cover [on the basket] was raised, and a woman was sitting in the basket.
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Here is a lead disc lifted up, and this is a woman sitting inside the basket";
8 The angel said, "This is wickedness," and he pushed her back into the basket and forced the lead cover down on top of it.
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then he said, "This is Wickedness!" And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover over its mouth.
9 I looked up and saw two women coming forward with wind in their wings. They had wings like those of a stork. They carried the basket into the sky.
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Then I raised my eyes and looked, and there were two women, coming with the wind in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.
10 I asked the angel who was speaking with me, "Where are they taking the basket?"
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So I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are they carrying the basket?"
11 He answered me, "They are going to build a house for it in Shinar [Babylonia]. When the house is ready, they will set the basket there on a stand."
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And he said to me, "To build a house for it in the land of Shinar; when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its base."
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