1. Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha: "Behold, the place in which we live before you is too narrow for us.
2. Let us go as far as the Jordan, and let us each take from the forest a piece of timber, so that we may build for ourselves a place to live there." And he said, "Go."
3. And one of them said, "Then you, too, should go with your servants." And he answered, "I will go."
4. And he went with them. And when they had arrived at the Jordan, they were cutting down wood.
5. Then it happened that, while someone was cutting timber, the iron of the ax fell into the water. And he cried out and said: "Alas, alas, alas, my lord! For this thing was borrowed."