A scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written on it:

Memorandum:

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And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

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Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—
    it is written about me in the scroll.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 40:7 Or come / with the scroll written for me

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

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Then I looked, and I saw a hand(A) stretched out to me. In it was a scroll,(B)

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And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

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The Flying Scroll

I looked again, and there before me was a flying scroll.(A)

He asked me, “What do you see?”(B)

I answered, “I see a flying scroll, twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 5:2 That is, about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide or about 9 meters long and 4.5 meters wide

Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.

And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

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