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* Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus , saying : Thy servant my husband is dead , and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God , and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him . * And Eliseus said to her : What wilt thou have me to do for thee ? Tell me , what hast thou in thy house ? And she answered : I thy handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil , to anoint me . * And he said to her : Go , borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few . * And go in , and shut thy door , when thou art within , and thy sons : and pour out thereof into all those vessels : and when they are full take them away . * So the woman went , and shut the door upon her , and upon her sons : they brought her the vessels , and she poured in . * And when the vessels were full , she said to her son : Bring me yet a vessel . And he answered : I have no more . And the oil stood . * And she came , and told the man of God . And he said : Go , sell the oil , and pay thy creditor : and thou and thy sons live of the rest . * And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam : now there was a great woman there , who detained him to eat bread ; and as he passed often that way , he turned into her house to eat bread . * And she said to her husband : I perceive that this is a holy man of God , who often passeth by us . * Let us therefore make him a little chamber , and put a little bed in it for him , and a table , and a stool , and a candlestick , that when he cometh to us , he may abide there . * Now there was a certain day when he came and turned in to the chamber , and rested there . * And he said to Giezi his servant Call this Sunamitess . And when he had called her , and she stood before him , * He said to his servant : Say to her Behold thou hast diligently served us in all things , what wilt thou have me to de for thee ? hast thou any business , and wilt thou that I speak to the king , or to the general of the army ? And she answered : I dwell in the midst of my own people . * And he said : What will she then that I do for her ? And Giezi said : Do not ask , for she hath no son , and her husband is old . * Then he bid him call her : And when she was called , and stood before the door . * He said to her : At this time , and this same hour , if life accompany , thou shalt have a son in thy womb . But she answered : Do not , I beseech thee , my lord , thou man of God , do not lie to thy handmaid . * And the woman conceived , and brought forth a son in the time , and at the same hour , that Eliseus had said . * And the child grew . And on a certain day , when he went out to his father to the reapers , * He said to his father : My head acheth , my head acheth . But he said to his servant : Take him , and carry him to his mother . * And when he had taken him , and brought him to his mother , she set him on her knees until noon , and then he died . * And she went up and laid him upon the bed of the man of God , and shut the door : and going out , * She called her husband , and said : Send with me , I beseech thee , one of thy servants , and an ass that I may run to the man of God , and come again . * And he said to her : Why dost thou go to him ? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath . She answered : I will go . * And she saddled an ass , and commanded her servant : Drive , and make haste , make no stay in going . And do that which I bid thee . * So she went forward , and came to the man of God to mount Carmel : and when the mall of God saw her coming towards , he said to Giezi his servant : Behold that Sunamitess . * Go therefore to meet her , and say to her : Is all well with thee , and with thy husband , and with thy son ? and she answered : Well . * And when she came to the man of God to the mount , she caught hold on his feet : and Giezi came to remove her . And the man of God said : Let her alone for her soul is in anguish , and the Lord hath hid it from me , and hath not told me . * And she said to him : Did I ask a son of my lord ? did I not say to thee : Do not deceive me ? * Then he said to Giezi : Gird up thy loins , and take my staff in thy hand , and go . If any man meet thee , salute him not : and if any man salute thee , answer him not : and lay my staff upon the face of the child . * But the mother of the child said : As the Lord liveth , and as thy soul liveth , I will not leave thee . He arose , therefore , and followed her . * But Giezi was gone before them , and laid the staff upon the face of the child , and there was no voice nor sense : and he returned to meet him , and told him , saying : The child is not risen . * Eliseus therefore went into the house , and behold the child lay dead on his bed . * And going in he shut the door upon him , and upon the child , and prayed to the Lord . * And he went up , and lay upon the child : and he put his mouth upon his mouth , and his eyes upon his eyes , and his hands upon his hands : and he bowed himself upon him , and the child 's flesh grew warm . * Then he returned and walked in the house , once to and fro : and he went up , and lay upon him : and the child gaped seven times , and opened his eyes . * And he called Giezi , and said to him : Call this Sunamitess . And she being called , went in to him : and he said : Take up thy son . * She came and fell at his feet , and worshipped upon the ground : and took up her son , and went out . * And Eliseus returned to Galgal , and there was a famine in the land , and the sons of the prophets dwelt before him . And he said to one of his servants : Set on the great pot , and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets . * And one went out into the field to gather wild herbs : and he found something like a wild vine , and gathered of it wild gourds of the field , and filled his mantle , and coming back he shred them into the pot of pottage , for he knew not what it was . * And they poured it out for their companions to eat : and when they had tasted of the pottage , they cried out , saying : Death is in the pot , O man of God . And they could not eat thereof . * But he said : Bring some meal . And when they had brought it , he cast it into the pot , and said : Pour out for the people , that they may eat . And there was now no bitterness in the pot . * And a certain man came from Baalsalisa bringing to the man of God bread of the firstfruits , twenty leaves of barley , and new corn in his scrip . And he said : Give to the people , that they may eat . * And his servant answered him : How much is this , that I should set it before a hundred men ? He said again : Give to the people , that they may eat : for thus saith the Lord : They shall eat , and there shall be left . * So he fief it before them : and they ate , and there was left according to the word of the Lord .

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