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.