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2 Kings 4:20-25 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

20. The servant picked him up and carried him to his mother; he sat in her lap until noon, and then died.

21. She went upstairs and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Closing the door on him, she went out

22. and called to her husband, “Let me have one of the servants and a donkey. I must go quickly to the man of God, and I will be back.”

23. He asked, “Why are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the sabbath.” But she said, “It is all right.”

24. When the donkey was saddled, she said to her servant, “Lead on! Do not stop my donkey unless I tell you.”

25. She kept going till she reached the man of God on Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi: “There is the Shunammite!

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