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And I returned and lifted my eyes, and I saw, and see, a flying scroll.
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And he said to me: “What do you see?” And I said: “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”
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And he said to me: “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cut off according to what is written on this side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to what is written on that side.
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I have caused it to go out,” declares Yahuah of Hosts, “and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My Name. And it shall lodge in the midst of his house and consume it, with its timber and its stones.”
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And the messenger who spoke with me went out and said to me: “Lift now your eyes and see what this is that is going out.”
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And I said: “What is it?” And he said: “This is the ephah that is going out.” And he said: “This is their appearance throughout all the land.”
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And see, a disk of lead was lifted, and there was one ishah sitting in the midst of the ephah.
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And he said: “This is Wickedness.” And he cast her into the midst of the ephah and cast the weight of lead upon its mouth.
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And I lifted my eyes and saw, and see, two women came out, and ruach was in their wings. And they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted the ephah between the earth and the heavens.
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And I said to the messenger who spoke with me: “Where are they carrying the ephah?”
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And he said to me: “To build for her a house in the land of Shinar. And when it is prepared, she shall be set there upon her own base.”