And he said, bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein One that had never been used, that it might not be thought that the virtue was owing to anything that had been, or was, put into it:
and they brought it to him; the pot with the salt in it.
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And when they came back to him, for he had stayed in Jericho, he said to them, "Did I not say to you, 'Do not go'?"
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Then the men of the city said to Elisha, "Please notice, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad, and the ground barren."
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And he said, "Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it." So they brought it to him.
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Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, "Thus says the Lord: 'I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.' "
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So the water remains healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.