Discovery BoxZechariah 5:5-6 
Context5:5 After this the angelic messenger 1 who had been speaking to me went out and said, “Look, see what is leaving.” 5:6 I asked, “What is it?” And he replied, “It is a basket for measuring grain 2 that is moving away from here.” Moreover, he said, “This is their ‘eye’ 3 throughout all the earth.”
Zechariah 5:10
Context5:10 I asked the messenger who was speaking to me, “Where are they taking the basket?”
1 tn See the note on the expression “angelic messenger” in 1:9.
2 tn Heb “[This is] the ephah.” An ephah was a liquid or solid measure of about a bushel (five gallons or just under twenty liters). By metonymy it refers here to a measuring container (probably a basket) of that quantity.
3 tc The LXX and Syriac read עֲוֹנָם (’avonam, “their iniquity,” so NRSV; NIV similar) for the MT עֵינָם (’enam, “their eye”), a reading that is consistent with the identification of the woman in v. 8 as wickedness, but one that is unnecessary. In 4:10 the “eye” represented divine omniscience and power; here it represents the demonic counterfeit.
