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1 Kings 17 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Ravens Feed Elijah
1 AND Elias the Thesbite of the inhabiters of Galaad said to Achab: Our Lord liveth the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, if there shall be these years dew and rain, but according to the words of my mouth.
2 And the word of our Lord came to him, saying:
3 Depart from hence, and go against the East, and be hid in the Torrent Carith, which is against Jordan,
4 and there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens that they feed thee there.
5 He therefore went, and did according to the word of our Lord: and when he was gone, he sat in the Torrent Carith, which is against Jordan.
6 The ravens also brought him bread and flesh in the morning, in like manner bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of the torrent.
7 But after certain days the torrent was dried: for it had not rained upon the earth.
Widow of Zarephath
8 Therefore the word of our Lord came to him, saying:
9 Arise, and go into Sareptha of the Sidonians, and thou shalt tarry there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.
10 He arose and went into Sareptha. And when he was come to the gate of the city, the widow woman appeared to him gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
11 And when she went to fetch it, he cried after her saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.
12 who answered: Our Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but so much meal in a pot as a hand can hold, and a little oil in a vessel: behold I gather two sticks, that I may go in, and dress it for me & my son, that we may eat, and die.
13 To whom Elias said: fear not, but go, and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, & bring it to me: & for thy self & thy son thou shalt make afterward.
14 For thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not fail, nor the vessel of oil be diminished until the day, wherein our Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.
15 Who went and did according to the word of Elias: and he did eat, and she, and her house: and from that day
16 the pot of meal failed not, and the vessel of oil was not diminished, according to the word of our Lord, which he spake in the hand of Elias.
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