Zechariah 5:3

earth Rather land, i.e. the land of Judah.

every one that stealeth The breach of one commandment of each table of the law, every one that stealeth, and so breaks the eighth commandment in the second table, every one that sweareth(i.e. falsely by God's name Zechariah 5:4), and so breaks the third commandment in the first table, is singled out, perhaps because these were then the most prevalent sins amongst the Jews, as typical of all transgression. "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." James 2:10-11.

on this side according to it If we retain this translation (or, on the one side, on the other side, R. V.) it will mean that the roll was written on both sides, and that on the one side was inscribed the curse against those who broke the first table of the law, and on the other side the curse against those who broke the second table. Some however translate for every thief shall be driven out hence(from hence, R. V. margin), i.e. from this land, according to it, and every swearer shall be driven out hence according to it. The objection to this is, that in the following verse we learn that the mission of the curse is not to expel sinners from the land, but to consume them in it. If with Pusey we take the word "cut off," A. V. to mean "cleansed away" (purged out, R. V.), as something defiled and defiling, which has to be cleared away as offensive, the objection would be removed. The sinner is cleansed away from the land when he is utterly destroyed.