{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/zechariah/5","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:20:26.007Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Zechariah","bookSlug":"zechariah","chapter":5,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":4,"nextChapter":6,"totalChapters":14,"totalVerses":11},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a flying scroll."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"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.|"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I will cause it to go out,| says Yahweh of Armies, |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.|"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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.|"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"(and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah basket.|"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Then I said to the angel who talked with me, |Where are these carrying the ephah basket?|"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Zechariah 5 (WEB)","markdown":"[Zechariah 5](https://primebible.com/web/zechariah/5)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/zechariah/5 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}