1 Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll. 2 He said to me, "What do you see?"

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 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 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 middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."

5 Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that is appearing."

6 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 and behold, a lead cover weighing one talent was lifted up—and there was a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket." 8 He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the lead weight on its mouth.

9 Then I lifted 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 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these carrying the ephah basket?"

11 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."

1 En ek het my oë weer opgeslaan en gekyk -- daar was 'n vlieënde boekrol.

2 En hy het vir my gesê: Wat sien jy? Toe antwoord ek: Ek sien 'n vlieënde boekrol, sy lengte is twintig el en sy breedte tien el.

3 Daarop sê hy vir my: Dit is die vloek wat uitgaan oor die ganse land; want ooreenkomstig daarmee sal al die diewe hiervandaan weggeruim word, en ooreenkomstig daarmee sal al die meinediges hiervandaan weggeruim word.

4 En laat dit uitgaan, spreek die HERE van die leërskare, en dit sal kom in die huis van die dief en in die huis van hom wat vals sweer by my Naam; en dit sal binne-in sy huis vernag en dit verteer saam met sy balke en sy klippe.

5 Daarop kom die engel vorentoe wat met my gespreek het, en sê vir my: Slaan tog jou oë op, en kyk wat daar te voorskyn kom.

6 Toe sê ek: Wat beteken dit? En hy antwoord: Dit is die efa wat te voorskyn kom. Verder het hy gesê: So lyk hulle in die ganse land.

7 En meteens word daar 'n looddeksel opgelig, en daar was 'n vrou wat binne-in die efa sit.

8 En hy sê: Dit is die goddeloosheid. En hy het haar binne-in die efa teruggewerp en die looddeksel op die opening daarvan gegooi.

9 Toe slaan ek my oë op en kyk -- daar kom twee vroue te voorskyn met die wind in hulle vlerke; en hulle het vlerke gehad soos die vlerke van 'n groot sprinkaanvoël, en hulle het die efa weggevoer tussen die aarde en die hemel.

10 Daarop sê ek aan die engel wat met my gespreek het: Waarheen bring hulle die efa?

11 En hy antwoord my: Om vir haar 'n huis te bou in die land S¡near; en is dit klaar, dan word sy daar op haar plek neergesit.