| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Then I looked up and saw a flying scroll! | 1Then I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold, there was a flying scroll. |
| 2And the angel asked me, "What do you see?" I answered him, "I'm looking at a flying scroll. It's 20 cubits long and ten cubits wide." | 2And he said to me, "What do you see?" And I answered, "I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits." |
| 3He responded to me, "This is the curse that is going out over the surface of the whole earth, because, according to this side of the scroll, all thieves will be ejected, and according to the other side of the scroll, all liars will be ejected." | 3Then he said to me, "This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the whole land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side. |
| 4"I am bringing this about," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "The curse will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who lies in my name. The curse will remain in his house until that house has been completely destroyed, right down to its timber and stones." | 4"I will make it go forth," declares the LORD of hosts, "and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones." |
| 5Then the angel who had been talking with me stepped forward and told me, "Please look up and see what's going out." | 5Then the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, "Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth." |
| 6So I asked, "What is it?" He replied, "This is a basket making its appearance." He also said, "This is what it appears to be in the entire land." | 6I said, "What is it?" And he said, "This is the ephah going forth." Again he said, "This is their appearance in all the land |
| 7Look, a round lead cover was being lifted, and there was one woman seated inside the basket! | 7(and behold, a lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah." |
| 8And the angel said, "This is evil!" So he shoved her back into the basket and snapped the round, lead cover over the opening. | 8Then he said, "This is Wickedness!" And he threw her down into the middle of the ephah and cast the lead weight on its opening. |
| 9Then I looked up to see two women coming forward with the wind filling their wings. (They had wings like those of a stork.) They took up the basket, holding it between the earth and sky. | 9Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and there two women were coming out with the wind in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens. |
| 10So I asked the angel who was talking to me, "Where are they taking the basket?" | 10I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "Where are they taking the ephah?" |
| 11He answered me, "To the land of Shinar, so they can build a temple to the woman in the basket. Then when its preparations are complete, the basket will be set there in its place." | 11Then he said to me, "To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal." |
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