1 Disseram os discípulos dos profetas a Eliseu: Eis que o lugar em que habitamos contigo é estreito demais para nós. 2 Vamos, pois, até ao Jordão, tomemos de lá, cada um de nós uma viga, e construamos um lugar em que habitemos. Respondeu ele: Ide. 3 Disse um: Serve-te de ires com os teus servos. Ele tornou: Eu irei. 4 E foi com eles. Chegados ao Jordão, cortaram madeira. 5 Sucedeu que, enquanto um deles derribava um tronco, o machado caiu na água; ele gritou e disse: Ai! Meu senhor! Porque era emprestado. 6 Perguntou o homem de Deus: Onde caiu? Mostrou-lhe ele o lugar. Então, Eliseu cortou um pau, e lançou-o ali, e fez flutuar o ferro, 7 e disse: Levanta-o. Estendeu ele a mão e o tomou.
1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with you is too strait for us.
2 Let us go, we pray you, to Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go you.
3 And one said, Be content, I pray you, and go with your servants. And he answered, I will go.
4 So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they cut down wood.
5 But as one was felling a beam, the ax head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was borrowed.
6 And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.
7 Therefore said he, Take it up to you. And he put out his hand, and took it.