¹And one woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha: Your slave, my husband, is dead, and you know that your slave was fearing Yahweh; and the creditor has come to take my two children for himself as slaves.

²Elisha said to her: What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house? She said: There is nothing for your female slave at all in the house except a flask of oil.

³He said: Go, borrow vessels for yourself from outside, from all your neighbors — empty vessels; do not make them few.

⁴And you shall come in, and shut the door behind you and behind your sons, and pour out into all these vessels; and the full one you shall remove.

⁵She went from him and shut the door behind her and behind her sons; they were bringing them to her, and she kept pouring out.

⁶And it happened, as the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me another vessel. He said to her: There is no other vessel. And the oil stood still.

⁷She came and told the man of God. He said: Go, sell the oil and pay your debt, and you and your sons will live on the remainder.

⁸And it happened, one day, that Elisha passed on to Shunem, and there was a great woman, and she took hold of him to eat food; and it happened, as often as he passed by, he would turn aside there to eat food.

⁹She said to her husband: Look, now, I know that the man of God is holy, he who passes by us continually.

¹⁰Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall, and let us put for him there a bed, a table, a seat, and a lampstand; and it shall be that when he comes to us, he can turn aside there.

¹¹And it happened, one day, that he came there, and turned aside to the upper room, and lay down there.

¹²He said to Gehazi, his servant: Summon this Shunammite woman. He summoned her, and she stood before him.

¹³He said to him: Please say to her: Look, you have been anxiously careful for us with all this care; what is there to do for you? Is there anything to speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army? She said: In the midst of my own people I am dwelling.

¹⁴He said: And what is to be done for her? Gehazi said: Indeed, she has no son, and her husband is old.

¹⁵He said: Summon her. He summoned her, and she stood in the doorway.

¹⁶He said: At this appointed time, about the time of reviving, you will be embracing a son. She said: No, my lord, man of God; do not lie to your female slave.

¹⁷The woman conceived, and bore a son at that appointed time, about the time of reviving, as Elisha had spoken to her.

¹⁸The child became great; and it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the harvesters.

¹⁹He said to his father: My head, my head! He said to the lad: Carry him to his mother.

²⁰He carried him and brought him to his mother; and he sat on her knees until noon, and he died.

²¹She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and closed up behind him, and went out.

²²She called to her husband, and said: Send, please, me one of the lads and one of the female donkeys, so that I may run to the man of God and return.

²³He said: Why are you going to him today? It is not new moon and not sabbath. She said: Wholeness.

²⁴She saddled the female donkey and said to her servant: Drive on and go; do not hold back for me to ride, unless I say so to you.

²⁵She went and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. And it happened, when the man of God saw her from opposite, he said to Gehazi, his servant: Look, there is the Shunammite woman, that one.

²⁶Now run, please, to meet her, and say to her: Is there wholeness for you? Is there wholeness for your husband? Is there wholeness for the child? She said: Wholeness.

²⁷She came to the man of God at the mountain and grasped his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said: Let go of her, for her being is bitter for her, and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me.

²⁸She said: Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say: Do not mislead me?

²⁹He said to Gehazi: Gird up your loins, take my staff in your hand, and go; if you meet anyone, do not bless him, and if anyone blesses you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the face of the lad.

³⁰The mother of the lad said: By the life of Yahweh, and by the life of your being, I will not leave you. He rose and went after her.

³¹Gehazi passed on ahead of them, and he laid the staff on the face of the boy; but there was no sound and no attention. He turned back to meet him and told him: The boy has not woken.

³²Elisha came into the house, and there was the boy, dead, laid on his bed.

³³He went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to Yahweh.

³⁴He went up and lay down over the child; he put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his palms on his palms, and he crouched over him; and grew warm the flesh of the child.

³⁵He turned back and walked in the house, once this way and once that way; then he went up and crouched over him. The boy sneezed up to seven times, and the boy opened his eyes.

³⁶He called to Gehazi and said: Call to this Shunammite woman. He called her, and she came to him. He said: Lift up your son.

³⁷She came in and fell at his feet and bowed down to the land; then she lifted up her son and went out.

³⁸Elisha went back to Gilgal while the famine was in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his boy: Put on the large pot and boil a stew for the sons of the prophets.

³⁹One man went out to the field to gather herbs. He found a vine of the field and gathered from it gourds of the field, filling his garment. He came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know.

⁴⁰They poured it out for the men to eat. And as they ate from the stew, they cried out and said: Death is in the pot, O man of God! And they could not eat.

⁴¹He said: Fetch flour. He threw it into the pot and said: Pour it out for the people, so they may eat. And there was no evil word in the pot.

⁴²A man came from Baal Shalishah and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh garden produce in his sack. He said: Give it to the people, so they may eat.

⁴³His servant said: What, shall I set this before a hundred men? But he said: Give it to the people, so they may eat, for thus says Yahweh: They will eat, and have some left over.

⁴⁴He set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of Yahweh.