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Atomic Bible
Zechariah 5:6
“What is it?” I asked.
from The Vision of the Woman in a Basket, Zechariah 5:5-11
What it says

Zechariah asks what it is, and the approaching object is revealed to be a basket.

What it is doing

This verse begins the disclosure of the new symbol.

In context

5Then the angel who was speaking with me came forward and told me, “Now lift up your eyes and see what is approaching.” 6“What is it?” I asked. 7And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket. 8“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening. 9Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth. 10“Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking with me. 11“To build a house for it in the land of Shinar, ” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”