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.

1 一位先知门徒的妻子哀求以利沙说： "你仆人我的丈夫死了， 你知道你的仆人是敬畏耶和华的。现在债主来要抓我的两个孩子作他的奴仆。"

2 以利沙对他说： "我可以为你作什么呢？告诉我， 你家里有什么呢？"她说： "婢女家中除了一瓶油以外， 什么也没有。"

3 以利沙说： "你到外面去向你所有的邻居借空器皿， 要尽量多借。

4 然后回去， 把你和你儿子关在家里， 你要把油倒在所有器皿里面， 装满了的就放在一边。"

5 于是妇人离开了他， 把自己和儿子关在门内； 她的儿子不住地把器皿拿到她面前， 她就把油倒进去。

6 器皿都倒满了的时候， 她对儿子说： "再拿一个器皿给我。"他对她说： "再没有器皿了。"油就止住了。

7 她去告诉神人， 神人说： "你去把油卖掉， 还清你的债务， 你和你的儿子可以靠着剩下的过活。"