Zechariah 5:6

New American Bible - revised edition

I said, “What is it?” And he answered, “This is the basket that is coming.” And he said, “This is their guilt in all the land.”

Cross References

Leviticus 19:36

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

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample upon the needy and destroy the poor of the land:

Amos 8:5

“When will the new moon be over,” you ask, “that we may sell our grain, And the sabbath, that we may open the grain-bins? We will diminish the ephah, add to the shekel, and fix our scales for cheating!

Amos 8:6

We will buy the destitute for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals; even the worthless grain we will sell!”

Micah 6:10

Am I to bear criminal hoarding and the accursed short ephah?

Zephaniah 1:9

I will punish, on that day, all who leap over the threshold, Who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.

Zechariah 5:7

Then a leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.