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What does Zechariah 5:8 mean?
"He said, “This is Wickedness”; and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth."
— Zechariah 5:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.”
I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land
(and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah basket.”
He said, “This is Wickedness”; and he threw her down into the middle of the ephah basket; and he threw the weight of lead on its mouth.
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.
Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are these carrying the ephah basket?”
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.”
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