Zechariah 5:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah that goes forth.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the 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 just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end,

Amos 8:5

saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,

Amos 8:6

that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?”

Micah 6:10

Can I forget the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?

Zephaniah 1:9

On that day I will punish every one who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master's house with violence and fraud.”

Zechariah 5:7

And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the ephah!