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Elisha said to her, “What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil.” He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers.[a] Get as many as you can.[b] Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers;[c] set aside each one when you have filled it.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:3 tn Heb “Go, ask for containers from outside, from all your neighbors, empty containers.”
  2. 2 Kings 4:3 tn Heb “Do not borrow just a few.”
  3. 2 Kings 4:4 tn Heb “all these vessels.”