1 Levantei novamente os olhos e vi um rolo que voava no ar.2 Que estás a ver?, o anjo perguntou-me.Um rolo a deslocar-se no ar!, respondi: Parece ter uns dez metros de comprimento e cinco de largura.3 E ele disse-me: Este rolo contém as palavras de Deus, amaldiçoando a Terra inteira, e afirmando que todos os que roubam e mentem já foram julgados e sentenciados à morte.4 'Envio esta maldição à casa de todo o que rouba e de todo o que jura falsamente pelo meu nome5 O anjo deixou-me por um momento, voltando depois para me dizer: Repara nisso que se está a deslocar no ar!6 O que é? perguntei.É uma vasilha que se usa para medir grão , que está cheia com o pecado que prevalece por toda a parte.7 De repente uma pesada tampa de chumbo, que cobria o recipiente, foi tirada e pude ver uma mulher lá dentro.8 Representa a maldade, disse ele. E empurrou-a para dentro do recipiente, tornando a pôr em cima a tampa.9 Depois vi duas mulheres voando na nossa direcção, com asas semelhantes às de uma cegonha. Pegaram naquela vasilha e levaram-na com elas pelos ares.10 Para onde levaram elas a vasilha? perguntei ao anjo.11 Para Babilónia replicou-me, onde vão construir-lhe um templo. Quando o templo estiver pronto, porão a vasilha no seu lugar próprio.

1 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and saw a flying roll.2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I answered, I see a flying roll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.3 Then he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land: for according to this side [of the scroll], everyone who steals will be emptied; and according to the other side, everyone who swears will be emptied.4 I brought it 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 reside in the midst of his house, and will consume it with its timber and its stones.5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that goes forth.6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This is their desire in all the land7 (and, look, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.8 And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead on its mouth.9 Then I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and saw there came forth 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 between earth and heaven.10 Then I said to the angel that talked with me, Where do these bear the ephah?11 And he said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place.