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20 So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye. Then I will follow you.”

“Go back,” Elijah answered him. “I’m not stopping you.”

21 Elisha left him, took two oxen, and butchered them. He boiled the meat, using the oxen’s yoke[a] for firewood. He gave the meat to the people to eat. Then he left to follow and assist Elijah.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 19:21 A yoke is a wooden bar placed over the necks of work animals so that they can pull plows or carts.

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