1 E disseram os filhos dos profetas a Eliseu: Eis que o lugar em que habitamos diante da tua face, nos é estreito.
2 Vamos, pois, até ao Jordão e tomemos de lá, cada um de nós, uma viga, e façamo-nos ali um lugar para habitar. E disse ele: Ide.
3 E disse um: Serve-te de ires com os teus servos. E disse: Eu irei.
4 E foi com eles; e, chegando eles ao Jordão, cortaram madeira.
5 E sucedeu que, derrubando um deles uma viga, o ferro caiu na água; e clamou, e disse: Ai, meu senhor! Ele era emprestado.
6 E disse o homem de Deus: Onde caiu? E mostrando-lhe ele o lugar, cortou um pau, e o lançou ali, e fez flutuar o ferro.
7 E disse: Levanta-o. Então ele estendeu a sua mão e o tomou.
1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.
2 Let us go, we pray thee, to the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he said, Go.
3 And one said, Consent, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he said, I will go.
4 And he went with them. And they came to the Jordan and cut down the trees.
5 And it came to pass as one was felling a beam, that the iron fell into the water; and he cried and said, Alas, master, and it was borrowed!
6 And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.
7 And he said, Take {it} up to thee. And he put out his hand and took it.