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Then she entered in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground and took up her son and went out.
38
And Elisha returned to Gilgal. Then there was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets
were sitting before him, so he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot and make pottage for the sons of the prophets.
39
And one went out into the field to gather herbs and found a wild vine and gathered his lap full of wild grapes and came and shred
them into the pot of pottage, for they knew
them not.
40
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of that pottage, that they cried out and said, O
thou man of God,
there is death in the pot. And they could not eat it.
41
But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast
it into the pot, and he said, Pour out for the people that they may eat. And there was no evil thing in the pot.
42
Then a man came from Baalshalisha, who brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of wheat in the head. And he said, Give unto the people that they may eat.
43
And his minister said, How can I set this before one hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat, for thus hath the LORD said, They shall eat, and
some shall be left over.
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So he set
it before them, and they ate, and
some was left over, according to the word of the LORD.