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Now a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried unto Elisha, saying, Thy slave, my husband, is dead; and thou knowest that thy slave feared the LORD; and the creditor is come to take my two sons to be his slaves.
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And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me what thou hast in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid has nothing in the house except a flask of oil.
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And he said, Go, borrow vessels from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; borrow not a few.
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Then enter in and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons and pour out into all those vessels, and as each one is full, set it aside.
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So she went from him and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought
the vessels to her, and she poured out
the oil.
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And when the vessels were full, she said unto her son, Bring me yet
another vessel. And he said unto her,
There are no more vessels. Then the oil stopped
flowing.
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Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell this oil and pay thy debtors and live thou and thy sons of the rest.
8
And it also happened that one day Elisha passed through Shunem, where
there was an important woman, and she constrained him to eat bread. And
so it was,
that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.