38
Elisha came back to Gilgal during a famine in the land. The sons of the
prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, Set on
the big pot and cook pottage for the sons of the prophets.
39
Then one went into the field to gather herbs and gathered from a wild
vine his lap full of wild gourds, and returned and cut them up into the
pot of pottage, for they were unknown to them.
40
So they poured it out for the men to eat. But as they ate of the
pottage, they cried out, O man of God, there is death in the pot! And
they could not eat it.
41
But he said, Bring meal [as a symbol of God's healing power]. And he
cast it into the pot and said, Pour it out for the people that they may
eat. Then there was no harm in the pot.
42
[At another time] a man from Baal-shalisha came and brought the man of
God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of
grain [in the husk] in his sack. And Elisha said, Give to the men that
they may eat.
43
His servant said, How am I to set [only] this before a hundred [hungry]
men? He said, Give to the men that they may eat. For thus says the
Lord: They shall be fed and have some left.
44 So he set it before them, and they ate and left some, as the Lord had said.
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