10 Elijah replied, “You have asked for something difficult. If you see me being taken from you,(A) you will have it. If not, you won’t.”

11 As they continued walking and talking, a chariot of fire with horses of fire(B) suddenly appeared and separated the two of them. Then Elijah went up into heaven in the whirlwind.(C) 12 As Elisha watched, he kept crying out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!”(D) Then he never saw Elijah again. He took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.(E)

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10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”

11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire(A) and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven(B) in a whirlwind.(C) 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots(D) and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore(E) it in two.

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