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446 Fourth Book of Kings

God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi, to him: and he said: Take up thy son.
his servant: Behold that Sunamitess.
37 She came and fell at his feet, and wor-
26 Go, therefore, to meet her, and say to her:
shipped upon the ground: and took up her son,
Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and
and went out.
with thy son? And she answered: Well.
27 And when she came to the man of God, 38 And Eliseus returned to Galgal, and there
to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and was a famine in the land, and the sons of the
Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God prophets dwelt before him: And he said to one
said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and of his servants: Set on the great pot, and boil
the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told pottage for the sons of the prophets.
me.
39 And one went out into the field to gather
28 And she said to him: Did I ask a son of my
wild herbs: and he found something like a wild
lord? did I not say to thee: Do not deceive me?
vine, and gathered of it wild gourds of the field,
29 Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins,
and filled his mantle, and coming back, he shred
and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any
them into the pot of pottage; for he knew not
man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man
what it was.
salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff
upon the face of the child. 40 And they poured it out for their compan-
30 But the mother of the child said: As the ions to eat: and when they had tasted of the
Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not pottage, they cried out, saying: Death is in the
leave thee. He arose, therefore, and followed her. pot, O man of God. And they could not eat
31 But Giezi was gone before them, and laid thereof.
the staff upon the face of the child, and there
41 But he said: Bring some meal. And when
was no voice nor sense: and he returned to meet
they had brought it, he cast it into the pot, and
him, and told him, saying: The child is not risen.
said: Pour out for the people, that they may eat.
32 Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and
And there was now no bitterness in the pot.
behold the child lay dead on his bed:
33 And going in, he shut the door upon him, 42 And a certain man came from Baalsalisa,
and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord. bringing to the man of God, bread of the first-
34 And he went up, and lay upon the child: fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in
and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that
upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: they may eat.
and he bowed himself upon him, and the child’s
43 And his servant answered him: How much
flesh grew warm.
is this, that I should set it before a hundred men?
35 Then he returned and walked in the house,
He said again: Give to the people, that they may
once to and fro: and he went up, and lay upon
eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and
him: and the child gaped seven times, and
there shall be left.
opened his eyes.
36 And he called Giezi, and said to him: Call 44 So he set it before them: and they ate, and
this Sunamitess. And she being called, went in there was left, according to the word of the Lord.