Zechariah 5:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.”
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BSBPD
“Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And I turn back, and lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a flying roll.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Zechariah 5:1 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 36:1In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
- Jeremiah 36:20So 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.
- Jeremiah 36:27After 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:
- Ezekiel 2:9Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
- Zechariah 5:2“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
- Revelation 5:1Then 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.
- 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.
- Revelation 10:8Then 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.”
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