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2 Kings 4 📜 📕 ↷
Widow's Oil
1 AND a certain woman of the wives of the prophets cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.📜💬📚
2 To whom Eliseus said: What wilt thou that I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? But she answered: I thy handmaid have nothing in my house, but a little oil, to anoint me withal.📜💬📚
3 To whom he said: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few.📜💬📚
4 And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, thou and thy sons: and pour thereof into all these vessels: and when they shall be full, thou shalt take them away.📜💬📚
5 The woman therefore went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her vessels, and she poured in.📜💬📚
6 And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have none. And the oil stood.📜💬📚
7 And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest:📜💬📚
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