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Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.
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Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the house? She said, Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil.
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Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
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You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.
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So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out.
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It happened, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. He said to her, There isn't another vessel. The oil stayed.
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Then she came and told the man of God. He said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.
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It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.
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She said to her husband, See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.