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So she left Elisha,[a] shut the door behind her and her children, and while they kept on bringing vessels to her, she kept on pouring oil.[b] When the last of[c] the vessels had been filled, she told her son, “Bring me another pot!”

But he replied, “There isn’t even one pot left.” Then the oil stopped flowing. After this, she went and told the man of God what had happened.[d] So he said, “Go sell the oil, pay your debt, and you and your children will be able to live on the proceeds.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:5 Lit. him
  2. 2 Kings 4:5 The Heb. lacks oil
  3. 2 Kings 4:6 The Heb. lacks last of
  4. 2 Kings 4:7 The Heb. lacks what had happened