Where is Zechariah 5:1–4, 9 found?

Zechariah 5:1–4, 9 (Hebrew Bible). Translation quoted: King James Version (1611; standard 1769 text), with Apocrypha.

Hebrew Bible · Zechariah 5:1–4, 9

The flying scroll

ReferenceZechariah 5:1–4, 9

Writtenc. 520 BCE

SetAfter the return from Babylon

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. 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.

Translation: KJV

Read it literally

A flying object about 30 by 15 feet that enters houses of thieves and destroys them. A drone with a target list. Later, women 'with wings like a stork' carry a sealed container into the sky.

What scholars say

A vision of a curse moving through the land.

From the sky Looks like technology

The flying scroll

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