² Elisha asked her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” Then she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of olive oil.” ³ Then he said to her, “Go, ask for yourself some containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. You must collect as many empty containers as you can!^{[a] 4} You must also go and shut the door behind you and your children, and you must pour out oil into all of these containers and set the filled ones aside.”