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And a woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha saying, Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant feared Jehovah; and the creditor is come to take my two children to be bondmen.
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And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid has not anything at all in the house but a pot of oil.
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And he said, Go, borrow for thyself vessels abroad from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; let it not be few;
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and go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels, and set aside what is full.
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And she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons: they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
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And it came to pass when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said to her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
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And she came and told the man of God; and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou [and] thy sons on the rest.
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And it came to pass on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a wealthy woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, [that] as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
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And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us continually.
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Let us make, I pray thee, a small upper chamber with walls, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lampstand; and it shall be when he cometh to us, he shall turn in thither.