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15 Therefore Elisha commanded, that he should call her (back). And when she was called, and stood before the door,

16 he said to her, In this time, as in (the) time of life (At this time, next year), thou shalt embrace a son.[a] And she answered, Do not thou, my lord, the man of God, I beseech (thee), do not thou lie to thine handmaid.

17 And the woman conceived, and childed a son in the time, and in the same hour, in which Elisha had said. (And the woman conceived, and bare a son at the time, and at the hour, in which Elisha had said.)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:16 That is, ‘In the year turned about (When the year is turned about), thou shalt live (as) whole as now, and thou shalt embrace a son born then,’ as Rabbi Solomon saith.