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 to Elisha, Look now, the place where we dwell before you is too strait for us.

2 Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take from there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go{}.

3 And one said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your slaves. And he answered, I will go.

4 So he went with them. And when they came to the 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, my master! For it was borrowed.

6 And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to swim.

7 And he said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.