2 Reis 4

1 Forsooth a woman of the wives of prophets cried to Elisha, and said, Thy servant, mine husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant dreaded God; and lo! the creancer, that is, he to whom debt is owed, cometh to take my two sons to serve him.

2 To whom Elisha said, What wilt thou that I do to thee? say thou to me, what hast thou in thine house? And she answered, I thine handmaid have not anything in mine house, no but a little of oil, with which I shall be anointed.

3 To whom he said, Go thou, and ask by borrowing of all thy neighbours void vessels, not a few.

4 And enter, and close thy door, when thou art within, thou and thy sons; and put ye thereof into all these vessels; and when those [or they] shall be full, thou shalt take away.

5 Therefore the woman went, and closed the door on herself and on her sons, they brought the vessels, and she poured in.

6 And when the vessels were full, she said to her son, Bring yet a vessel to me. And he answered, I have not. And then the oil stood, increasing no more.

7 Forsooth she came, and showed it to the man of God; and he said, Go thou, sell the oil, and yield to thy creancer; and thou and thy children live ye off the remnant, or the residue.