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 Or una donna di tra le mogli de discepoli de profeti esclamò e disse ad Eliseo: "Il mio marito, tuo servo, è morto; e tu sai che il tuo servo temeva lEterno; e il suo creditore è venuto per prendersi i miei due figliuoli e farsene degli schiavi".
2 Eliseo le disse: "Che debbo io fare per te? Dimmi; che hai tu in casa?" Ella rispose: "La tua serva non ha nulla in casa, tranne un vasetto dolio".
3 Allora egli disse: "Va fuori, chiedi in prestito da tutti i tuoi vicini de vasi vuoti; e non ne chieder pochi.
4 Poi torna, serra luscio dietro a te ed ai tuoi figliuoli, e versa dellolio in tutti que vasi; e, man mano che saran pieni, falli mettere da parte".
5 Ella dunque si partì da lui, e si chiuse in casa coi suoi figliuoli; questi le portavano i vasi, ed ella vi versava lolio.
6 E quando i vasi furono pieni, ella disse al suo figliuolo: "Portami ancora un vaso". Quegli le rispose: Non ce nè più dei vasi". E lolio si fermò.
7 Allora ella andò e riferì tutto alluomo di Dio, che le disse: "Va a vender lolio, e paga il tuo debito; e di quel che resta sostentati tu ed i tuoi figliuoli".