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He told her, “Go out to all of your neighbors in the surrounding streets and borrow lots of pots from them. Don’t get just a few empty vessels, either. Then go in and shut the door behind you, taking only your children, and pour oil[a] into all of the pots. As each one is filled, set it aside.”

So she left Elisha,[b] shut the door behind her and her children, and while they kept on bringing vessels to her, she kept on pouring oil.[c] When the last of[d] the vessels had been filled, she told her son, “Bring me another pot!”

But he replied, “There isn’t even one pot left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

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  1. 2 Kings 4:4 The Heb. lacks oil
  2. 2 Kings 4:5 Lit. him
  3. 2 Kings 4:5 The Heb. lacks oil
  4. 2 Kings 4:6 The Heb. lacks last of