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29 Then Elisha said to Gehazi, “Hike up your garments for travel,[a] and take my staff in your hand and go! If you meet someone, do not greet him, and if someone greets you, do not answer. Put my staff on the boy’s face.”

30 But the boy’s mother said, “As surely as the Lord lives and your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her. 31 Gehazi went ahead of them and put the staff on the boy’s face. But there was no sound, and there was no response. So he went back to Elisha and told him, “The boy did not wake up.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 4:29 This refers to gathering up one’s flowing robes around the waist to make it easier to move quickly. We might say, “Tighten your belt.”