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.
18
And when they returned to him (for he tarried at Yericho), he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
19
And the anshei HaIr said unto Elishah, Hinei, now, the situation of this city is tov, as adoni seeth; but the mayim is ra’im, and ha’aretz (the land) meshakkalet (barren, unfruitful).
20
And he said, Bring me a tzelokhit chadasha (new bowl), and put melach therein. And they brought it to him.
21
And he went forth unto the motza hamayim (spring of water), and cast the melach in there, and said, Thus saith Hashem, I have healed these mayim; there shall not be from there any more mavet or meshakkalet (unfruitfulness, barrenness).
22
So the mayim were healed unto hayom hazeh (this day), according to the devar Elishah which he spoke.
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