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The Vision of the Flying Scroll

Zechariah 5:1

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
And I turn back, and lift up my eyes, and look, and behold, a flying scroll.
YLT
And I turn back, and lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a flying roll.
DBY
And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.
DRC
And I turned and lifted up my eyes: and I saw, and behold a volume flying.
GNV
Then I turned me, and lifted vp mine eyes and looked, and beholde, a flying booke.
JPS
Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a flying roll.
LXXE
And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked and behold a flying sickle.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וָאָשׁ֕וּב וָאֶשָּׂ֥א עֵינַ֖י וָֽאֶרְאֶ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֖ה מְגִלָּ֥ה עָפָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐπέστρεψα, καὶ ᾖρα τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου, καὶ ἴδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ δρέπανον πετόμενον.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Zechariah 5:2“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
  • Ezekiel 2:9–10Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll, which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.
  • Isaiah 8:1Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
  • Jeremiah 36:20–24So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king. Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it…
  • Revelation 10:8–11Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the small scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the land.” And I went to the angel and said, “Give me…
  • Jeremiah 36:27–32After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: “Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the…
  • Revelation 10:2He held in his hand a small scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.
  • Jeremiah 36:1–6In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations,…
  • Revelation 5:1–14Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the…

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