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Zechariah 5:2

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5:2 Someone asked me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.” 1 

Zechariah 8:16

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8:16 These are the things you must do: Speak the truth, each of you, to one another. Practice true and righteous judgment in your courts. 2 

Zechariah 14:19

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14:19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

1 tn Heb “twenty cubits…ten cubits” (so NAB, NRSV). These dimensions (“thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide”) can hardly be referring to the scroll when unrolled since that would be all out of proportion to the normal ratio, in which the scroll would be 10 to 15 times as long as it was wide. More likely, the scroll is 15 feet thick when rolled, a hyperbole expressing the enormous amount and the profound significance of the information it contains.

2 sn For a similar reference to true and righteous judgment see Mic 6:8.



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