Zechariah 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is a basket coming out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in the whole land.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And I said, What is it? [What does it symbolize?] And he said, This that goes forth is an ephah[-sized vessel for separate grains all collected together]. This, he continued, is the symbol of the sinners mentioned above and is the resemblance of their iniquity throughout the whole land. [Amos 8:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their appearance in all the land

Common English Bible

⁶ I said, “What’s this?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out. This is how it appears throughout the entire land.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And I said, "What, then, is it?" And he said, "This is a container going forth." And he said, "This is their eye in all the earth."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And I said: What is it? And he said: This is a vessel going forth. And he said: This is their eye in all the earth.

Zechariah 5:6 Cross References

Leviticus 19:36

You shall have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy, and bring to ruin the poor of the land,

Amos 8:5

saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier and practice deceit with false balances,

Amos 8:6

buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”

Micah 6:10

Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked and the despicable false measure?

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.

Zechariah 5:7

Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket!