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But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land;
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yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
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There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian."
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The terms [leper] and [leprosy] can refer to several diseases
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