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The flying scroll is explained as “the curse” going out over the whole land in Zechariah 5:3. It targets the thief and the one who swears falsely in Zechariah 5:3–4. The curse enters the offender’s house and consumes it, according to Zechariah 5:4.
1Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying scroll.
2He said to me, What see you? I answered, I see a flying scroll; the length of it is twenty cubits, and the breadth of it ten cubits.
3Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the surface of the whole land: for everyone who steals shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and everyone who swears shall be cut off on the other side according to it.
4I will cause it to go forth, says Yahweh of Hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber of it and the stones of it.