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Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She answered, "Your servant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil."
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He said, "Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not just a few.
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Then go in, and shut the door behind you and your children, and start pouring into all these vessels; when each is full, set it aside."
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So she left him and shut the door behind her and her children; they kept bringing vessels to her, and she kept pouring.
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When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." But he said to her, "There are no more." Then the oil stopped flowing.
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She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your children can live on the rest."
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One day Elisha was passing through Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for a meal.
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She said to her husband, "Look, I am sure that this man who regularly passes our way is a holy man of God.
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Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that he can stay there whenever he comes to us."
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One day when he came there, he went up to the chamber and lay down there.
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He said to his servant Gehazi, "Call the Shunammite woman." When he had called her, she stood before him.