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4 Kings 4:2-10 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

2. And Eliseus said to her: What wilt thou have me to do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in thy house? And she answered: I thy handmaid have nothing in my house but a little oil, to anoint me.

3. And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few.

4. And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full take them away.

5. So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured in.

6. And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.

7. And she came, and told the man of God. And he said: Go, sell the oil, and pay thy creditor: and thou and thy sons live of the rest.

8. And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread; and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.

9. And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.

10. Let us therefore make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he cometh to us, he may abide there.

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