Zechariah 5:3

The angel explained that the scroll represented the curses that God had decreed against the Israelites who stole and who swore falsely in the Lord’s name (Zechariah 5:4; cf. Deuteronomy 28). According to what God had previously written in the Law, those who stole and profaned His name would die, thus purging the land of sin. The Hebrew word ha’arets can mean either "the earth" or "the land." Here and in Zechariah 5:6 the primary meaning seems to be "the land," namely, the land of Israel. Writing was on both sides of the scroll, as it had been on the stone tables that contained the Ten Commandments (Exodus 32:15). On one side there was a curse against Israelites who broke the eighth commandment (Exodus 20:15), and on the other side was a curse for breaking the third commandment (Exodus 20:7). These two commandments, from the first part of the Decalogue and the second part, which Zechariah’s contemporaries were apparently breaking frequently, probably represent by synecdoche the whole Law (cf. James 2:10). Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which the writer uses a part or parts to represent the whole or the whole to represent a part.