1. I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.
2. He asked me, ‘What do you see?’I answered, ‘I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.’
3. And he said to me, ‘This is the curse that is going out over the whole land; for according to what it says on one side, every thief will be banished, and according to what it says on the other, everyone who swears falsely will be banished.
4. The Lord Almighty declares, “I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.” ’
5. Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, ‘Look up and see what is appearing.’
6. I asked, ‘What is it?’He replied, ‘It is a basket.’ And he added, ‘This is the iniquity of the people throughout the land.’
7. Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman!
8. He said, ‘This is wickedness,’ and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it.