1 Levantei novamente os olhos, e vi diante de mim um pergaminho que voava.

2 O anjo me perguntou: "O que você está vendo? " Respondi: "Vejo um pergaminho voando, com nove metros de comprimento por quatro e meio de largura".

3 Então ele me disse: "Nele está escrita a maldição que está sendo derramada sobre toda a terra: porque tanto o ladrão como o que jura falsamente serão expulsos, conforme essa maldição.

4 Assim declara o Senhor dos Exércitos: ‘Eu lancei essa maldição para que ela entre na casa do ladrão e na casa do que jura falsamente pelo meu nome. Ela ficará em sua casa e destruirá tanto as vigas como os tijolos! ’ "

5 Em seguida o anjo que falava comigo se adiantou e me disse: "Olhe e veja o que vem surgindo".

6 Perguntei o que era aquilo, e ele me respondeu: "É um cesto". E disse mais: "Aí está o pecado de todo o povo desta terra".

7 Então a tampa de chumbo foi retirada, e ali dentro do cesto estava uma mulher sentada!

8 Ele disse: "Esta é a Perversidade", e a empurrou para dentro do cesto e o tapou de novo com a tampa de chumbo.

9 De novo ergui os olhos e vi chegarem à minha frente duas mulheres com asas como de cegonha; o vento impeliu suas asas, e elas ergueram o cesto entre o céu e a terra.

10 Perguntei ao anjo: "Para onde estão levando o cesto? "

11 Ele respondeu: "Para a Babilônia, onde vão construir um santuário para ele. Quando ficar pronto, o cesto será colocado lá, em seu pedestal".

1 Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.

2 And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, A roll going through the air; it is twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.

3 Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.

4 And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

5 And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.

6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah which is going out. And he said further, This is their evil-doing in all the land.

7 And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.

8 And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.

9 And lifting up my eyes I saw two women coming out, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they took the ephah, lifting it up between earth and heaven.

10 And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah?

11 And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.