25
So Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves and dress
it first, for ye
are many, and invoke in the name of your gods, but put no fire
under it.
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And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed
it and invoked in the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, answer us. But
there was no voice nor anyone that answered. And they jumped up and down near the altar which they had made.
27
And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud, for he
is a god; peradventure he is talking or he had to go to the latrine, or he is on a journey,
or he sleeps and will awake.
28
And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets until the blood gushed out upon them.
29
And when midday was past,
even so they prophesied until the
time of the offering of the
evening sacrifice, and
there was neither voice nor anyone that answered nor anyone that heard.
30
Then Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD
that was broken down.
31
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name;
32
and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; then he made a trench round about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
33
And he put the wood in order and cut the bullock in pieces and laid
it on the wood and said, Fill four pitchers with water and pour
it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.
34
And he said, Do
it the second time, and they did
it the second time. And he said, Do
it the third time, and they did
it the third time.
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So that the water ran round about the altar, and he had filled the trench also with water.