Zechariah 5:1
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
- KJV
- Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
- WEB
- Then again I lifted up my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll.
- ASV
- Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.
- DARBY
- And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.
- BLB
- And I turned and lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a flying scroll.
- ÅB
- Så løftet jeg øynene mine opp igjen og fikk se en flyvende bokrull.
- OTB
- Jeg løftet mine øyne igjen og så, og se, det var en flygende bokrull.
- B1930
- Så løftet jeg atter mine øine op og fikk se en flyvende bokrull.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zechariah 5:2
And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
Read in contextEzekiel 2:9–10
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
Read in contextIsaiah 8:1
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:1–6
And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Read in contextRevelation 10:8–11
And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:20–24
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
Read in contextRevelation 5:1–14
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
Read in contextJeremiah 36:27–32
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
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