1 O femeie dintre nevestele fiilor proorocilor a strigat lui Elisei: ,,Robul tău, bărbatul meu, a murit, şi ştii că robul tău se temea de Domnul; şi cel ce l -a împrumutat a venit să ia cei doi copii ai mei şi să -i facă robi.
2 Elisei i -a zis: ,,Ce pot să fac pentru tine? Spune-mi ce ai acasă? Ea a răspuns: ,,Roaba ta n'are acasă decît un vas cu untdelemn.
3 Şi el a zis: ,,Du-te de cere vase de afară dela toţi vecinii tăi, vase goale, şi nu cere puţine.
4 Cînd te vei întoarce, închide uşa după tine şi după copiii tăi; toarnă din untdelemn în toate aceste vase, şi pune deoparte pe cele pline.
5 Atunci ea a plecat dela el. A închis uşa după ea şi după copiii ei; ei îi apropiau vasele, şi ea turna din untdelemn în ele.
6 Cînd s'au umplut vasele, ea a zis fiului său: ,,Mai dă-mi un vas. Dar el i -a răspuns: ,,Nu mai este niciun vas. Şi n'a mai curs untdelemn.
7 Ea s'a dus de a spus omului lui Dumnezeu lucrul acesta. Şi el a zis: ,,Du-te de vinde untdelemnul, şi plăteşte-ţi datoria; iar cu ce va rămînea, vei trăi tu şi fiii tăi.
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.