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* And Elias the Thesbite of the inhabitants of Galaad said to Achab : As the Lord liveth the God of Israel , in whose sight I stand , there shall not be dew nor rain these years , but according to the words of my mouth . * And the word of the Lord came to him , saying : * Get thee hence , and go towards the east and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith , which is over against the Jordan , * And there thou shalt drink of the torrent : and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there . * So he went , and did according to the word of the Lord : and going , he dwelt by the torrent Carith , which is over against the Jordan . * And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning , and bread and flesh in the evening , and he drank of tile torrent . * But after some time the torrent was dried up , for it had not rained upon the earth . * Then the word of the Lord came to him , saying : * Arise , and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians , and dwell there : for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee . * He arose , and went to Sarephta . And when he was come to the gate of the city , he saw the widow woman gathering sticks , and he called her , and said to her : Give me a little water in a vessel , that I may drink . * And when she was going to fetch it he called after her , saying : Bring me also , I beseech thee , a morsel of bread in thy hand . * And she answered : As the Lord thy God liveth , I have no bread , but only a handful of meal in a pot , and a little oil in a cruse : behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it , for me and my son , that we may eat it , and die . * And Elias said to her : Fear not , but go , and do as thou hast said : but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake , and bring it to me : and after make for thyself and thy son . * For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel : The pot of meal shall not waste , nor the cruse of oil be diminished , until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth . * She went and did according to the word of Elias : and he ate , and she , and her house : and from that day * The pot of meal wasted not , and the cruse of oil was not diminished , according to the word of the Lord , which he spoke in the hand of Elias . * And it came to pass after this that the son of the woman , the mistress of the house , fell sick , and the sickness was very grievous , so that there was no breath left in him . * And she said to Elias : What have I to do with thee , thou man of God ? art thou come to me that my iniquities should be remembered , and that thou shouldst kill my son ? * And Elias said to her : Give me thy son . And he took him out of her bosom , and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode , and laid him upon his own bed . * And he cried to the Lord , and said : O Lord my God , hast thou afflicted also the widow , with whom I am after a so maintained , so as to kill her son ? * And he stretched , and measured himself upon the child three times , and cried to the Lord , and said : 0 Lord my God , let the soul of this child , I beseech thee , return into his body . * And the Lord heard the voice of Elias : and the soul of the child returned into him , and he revived . * And Elias took the child , and brought him down from the upper chamber to the house below , and delivered him to his mother , and said to her : Behold thy son liveth . * And the woman said to Elias : Now , by this I know that thou art a man of God , and the word of the Lord in thy mouth is true .

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