And I said, What is it? for Zechariah evidently did not recognize the object at once. And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth, the ephah being a dry measure corresponding roughly to our peck. The object in the vision was evidently a receptacle having the shape of an ephah, and the ephah was chosen because it was often called the measure of unrighteousness and of deceit. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth, literally, 'This their eye in all the land," that is, this is the object of their gaze, all eyes are centered upon it.

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