5:1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and hinei megillah flying (a flying scroll).
5:2 And he said to me:
"What seest thou?
And I answered:
"I see a flying roll; the length thereof [is] twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits."
5:3 Then said he to me:
"This [is] the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole eretz: 'For every one that stealeth shall be cut off [as] on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off [as] on that side according to it."
5:4 "I will bring it forth" said ADONAI (יהוה) Tzva'ot, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by My Name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
5:5 Then the messenger that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what [is] this that goes forth.
5:6 And I said:
"What [is] it?"
And he said:
"This [is] an ephah that goes forth. He said moreover, This [is] their resemblance through all the land."
5:7 And, hinei, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this [is] a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.
5:8 And he said:
"This [is] wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof."
5:9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, hinei, there came out two women, and the wind [was] in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the land and the heaven.
5:10 Then said I to the messenger that talked with me:
"Whither do these bear the ephah? "
5:11 And he said to me, To build it an house in the land Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
1a) a dry measure of quantity, equal to 3 seahs, 10 omers; the same as the liquid measure bath; (about 9 imperial gallons (40 liters), rabbinical writings give sizes of one-half this amount)
1b) the receptacle for measuring or holding that amount
Shinar = “country of two rivers”
1) the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea