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4 Kings 4:9-26 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.

11. Now there was a certain day when he came and turned in to the chamber, and rested there.

12. And he said to Giezi his servant Call this Sunamitess. And when he had called her, and she stood before him,

13. He said to his servant: Say to her Behold thou hast diligently served us in all things, what wilt thou have me to de for thee? hast thou any business, and wilt thou that I speak to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own people.

14. And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.

15. Then he bid him call her: And when she was called, and stood before the door.

16. He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life accompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

17. And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour, that Eliseus had said.

18. And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers,

19. He said to his father: My head acheth, my head acheth. But he said to his servant: Take him, and carry him to his mother.

20. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, she set him on her knees until noon, and then he died.

21. And she went up and laid him upon the bed of the man of God, and shut the door: and going out,

22. She called her husband, and said: Send with me, I beseech thee, one of thy servants, and an ass that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

23. And he said to her: Why dost thou go to him? to day is neither new moon nor sabbath. She answered: I will go.

24. And she saddled an ass, and commanded her servant: Drive, and make haste, make no stay in going. And do that which I bid thee.

25. So she went forward, and came to the man of God to mount Carmel: and when the mall of God saw her coming towards, he said to Giezi his servant: Behold that Sunamitess.

26. Go therefore to meet her, and say to her: Is all well with thee, and with thy husband, and with thy son? and she answered: Well.

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