1 Um dia o grupo dos profetas veio ter com Eliseu: Como estás a ver, as nossas dependências são muito acanhadas. Achas que podemos ir até ao Jordão e construir ali melhores alojamentos? Acho que sim; podem ir.

3 Por favor, vem connosco, pediu-lhe um deles.Pois sim, respondeu Eliseu.

4 Quando chegaram ao Jordão, começaram a cortar madeira; mas a certa altura o ferro de um machado caiu ao rio. Oh, senhor, exclamou ele, era emprestado!

6 Onde foi que ele caiu?, perguntou o homem de Deus. O jovem mostrou-lhe o sítio; Eliseu cortou um pedaço de madeira e lançou-o à água; o ferro do machado veio ao de cima e ficou a flutuar!

7 Vai apanhá-lo, disse-lhe o profeta. E assim o recuperou.

1 And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha,See, we pray thee, the place wherein we sit before thee, is too strait for us.

2 Let us go, we pray thee, as far as the Jordan, and fetch from thence every man a single beam, and let us make us a place wherein we may sit. And he saidGo ye.

3 Then said oneBe content, we pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he saidI myself, will go.

4 So he went with them,and, when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.

5 And it came to pass, as one was felling a branch, that, the axe-head, fell into the water, so he made outcry and saidAlas! my lord, for, it, was borrowed!

6 And the man of God saidWhere fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a piece of wood and cast it in thither, and the iron did swim.

7 And he saidTake it up to thee. So he put forth his hand, and took it.