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And he asked me, “What are you seeing?” And I said, “I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”[a] And he said to me, “This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished[b] according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. ‘I have sent it out,’ declares[c] Yahweh of hosts, ‘and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing falsely by my name,[d] and it will spend the night in that[e] house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:2 That is, thirty feet by fifteen feet
  2. Zechariah 5:3 Many translations render this verb as “will be cut off”
  3. Zechariah 5:4 Literally “declaration of”
  4. Zechariah 5:4 Literally “by my name to lie”
  5. Zechariah 5:4 Hebrew “his”