1 Os filhos dos profetas disseram a Eliseu: Vê: o lugar em que moramos contigo tornou-se estreito demais para nós.

2 Vamos até o Jordão, tomemos dali cada um de nós uma viga, e construamos ali uma sala em que habitemos. Ide, respondeu-lhes ele.

3 Mas vem também tu com os teus servos, ajuntou um deles. Eu irei, disse ele.

4 E partiu com eles. Chegados ao Jordão, puseram-se a cortar madeira.

5 Ora, estando um deles a cortar uma árvore, eis que o seu machado caiu na água. Ah, meu senhor!, exclamou ele. Porque o machado era emprestado.

6 Onde caiu ele?, perguntou o homem de Deus. Ele mostrou-lhe o lugar. Eliseu cortou um pedaço de madeira, jogou-o na água, e o machado veio à tona.

7 Tira-o, disse ele. O homem estendeu a mão e tomou-o.

1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.

2 Let us go, we pray thee, to the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he said, Go.

3 And one said, Consent, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he said, I will go.

4 And he went with them. And they came to the Jordan and cut down the trees.

5 And it came to pass as one was felling a beam, that the iron fell into the water; and he cried and said, Alas, master, and it was borrowed!

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

7 And he said, Take {it} up to thee. And he put out his hand and took it.