1 Kings 19:19-21

Tree of Life Version

Calling of Elisha

¹⁹ So he departed from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Then Elijah crossed over to him and threw his mantle on him. ²⁰ So he left the oxen and ran after Elijah saying, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.”^[a]

“Come back,” he said to him. “For what have I done to you?” ²¹ So he returned from following him, and took the pair of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the oxen’s yoke gear, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, went after Elijah and became his attendant.