Zechariah 5:2, 5-11

The angel asked me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll, thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.”

Then the angel who was talking with me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is going out.” “What is it?” I asked. He answered, “It is a measuring basket going out.” He also said, “It is a symbol of the people’s sins in all the land.” Then the lid made of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket. The angel said, “The woman stands for wickedness.” Then he pushed her back into the basket and put the lid back down. Then I looked up and saw two women going out with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and the sky. I asked the angel who was talking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?” “They are going to Babylonia to build a temple for it,” he answered. “When the temple is ready, they will set the basket there in its place.”