004:012 I asked him the second time, "What are these two olive branches,
which are beside the two golden spouts, that pour the golden
oil out of themselves?"
004:013 He answered me, "Don't you know what these are?"
I said, "No, my lord."
004:014 Then he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand
by the Lord of the whole earth."
005:001 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold,
a flying scroll.
005:002 He said to me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I see a flying scroll;
its length is twenty cubits, and its breadth ten cubits."
005:003 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.
005:004 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 midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber
and its stones."
005:005 Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me,
"Lift up now your eyes, and see what is this that is appearing."
005:006 I said, "What is it?" He said, "This is the ephah{ An ephah
is a measure of volume of about 22 litres, 5.8 U. S. gallons,
4.8 imperial gallons, or a bit more than half a bushel.
} basket that is appearing." He said moreover, "This is
their appearance in all the land
005:007 (and behold, a talent{A talent is a weight of about 34 kilograms
or 75 pounds.} of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman
sitting in the midst of the ephah basket."
005:008 He said, "This is Wickedness;" and he threw her down into
the midst of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead
on its mouth.
005:009 Then lifted I 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.
005:010 Then said I to the angel who talked with me, "Where are these
carrying the ephah basket?"
005:011 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."
006:001 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots
came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were
mountains of brass.
006:002 In the first chariot were red horses; in the second
chariot black horses;
006:003 in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot
dappled horses, all of them powerful.
006:004 Then I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"
006:005 The angel answered me, "These are the four winds of the sky,
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