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He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood at the door.
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He said, "At this season, in due time, you shall embrace a son." She replied, "No, my lord, O man of God; do not deceive your servant."
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The woman conceived and bore a son at that season, in due time, as Elisha had declared to her.
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When the child was older, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.
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He complained to his father, "Oh, my head, my head!" The father said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."
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He carried him and brought him to his mother; the child sat on her lap until noon, and he died.
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She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed the door on him, and left.
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Then she called to her husband, and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again."
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He said, "Why go to him today? It is neither new moon nor sabbath." She said, "It will be all right."
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Then she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Urge the animal on; do not hold back for me unless I tell you."
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So she set out, and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, "Look, there is the Shunammite woman;