1 En 'n sekere vrou uit die vroue van die profete-seuns het na El¡sa geroep en gesê: U dienaar, my man, is dood, en u weet self dat u dienaar die HERE gevrees het; nou het die skuldeiser gekom om my twee kinders vir hom as slawe te neem.
2 Toe sê El¡sa vir haar: Wat kan ek vir jou doen? Gee my te kenne wat jy in die huis het. En sy antwoord: U dienares het glad niks in die huis nie, behalwe 'n flessie met olie.
3 En hy sê: Gaan leen vir jou van buite af kanne, leë kanne van al jou bure; leen nie te min nie.
4 Gaan dan in en sluit die deur agter jou en jou seuns toe, en giet in al daardie kanne en sit weg wat vol is.
5 Sy het toe van hom af weggegaan en die deur agter haar en haar seuns toegesluit; en terwyl hulle vir haar aanbring, giet sy in.
6 Sodra die kanne vol was, sê sy aan haar seun: Bring vir my nog 'n kan aan; maar hy antwoord haar: Daar is geen kan meer nie. Toe gaan die olie staan.
7 Daarop kom sy om dit die man van God te kenne te gee; en hy sê: Gaan verkoop die olie en betaal jou skulde; van die orige kan jy en jou seuns dan lewe.
1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.
2 Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.
3 Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.
4 Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.
5 So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.
6 And when all the vessels were full, she said to her son, Get me another vessel. And he said, There are no more. And the flow of oil was stopped.
7 So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.