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1 上主要用旋風接厄里亞升天的時候，厄里亞和厄里叟正離開基耳加耳；
Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,
2 厄里亞對厄里叟說：「請你劉在這裏，因為上主派我到貝特耳去。」厄里叟卻回答說：「我指著永生的上主和你的性命起誓：我決不離開你。」於是二人到貝特耳。
and Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
3 在貝特耳的先知弟子們出來見厄里叟說：「上主今天要接你的師傅離開你，你知道嗎﹖」他回答說：「是，我知道，你們不要作聲。」
Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
4 厄里亞對厄里叟說：「厄里叟，請你留在這裏，因為上主派我到耶里哥去。」他回答說：「我指著永生的上主和你的性命起誓：我決不離開你。」於是二人往耶里哥去了。
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
5 在耶里哥的先知弟子們前來，對厄里叟說: 「上主今天要接你的師傅離開你，你知道嗎﹖」他回答說：「是的，我知道，你們不要作聲。」
Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
6 厄里亞又對厄里叟說：「請你留在這裏，因為上主派我到約但河去。」厄里叟回答說：「我指著永生的上主和你的性命起誓：我決不離開你。」二人於是繼續前行。
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
7 先知弟子中有五十個人同去，遠遠站在他們對面，他們二人立在約旦河邊，
Then a company of fifty of the sons of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing Elijah and Elisha as the two of them stood by the Jordan.
8 厄里亞將自己的外衣捲起，擊打河水，即左右分開，他們二人從乾地上走了過去。
And Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the waters, which parted to the right and to the left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
9 過去以後，厄里亞對厄里叟說：「在我被接去離開你以前，我應該為你作什麼，你儘管求罷! 」厄里叟答說：「求你把你的精神給我兩分。」
After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
10 厄里亞說：「你求了一件難事；不過當我被接去離開你的時候，你若能看見我，你就可以得到；否則，你就不能得到。」
“You have requested a difficult thing,” said Elijah. “Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so.”
11 他們正邊走邊談的時候，忽然有一輛火馬拉的火車出現，把他們二人分開；厄里亞便乘著旋風升天去了。
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
12 厄里叟一見，就呼喊說：「我父，我父! 以色列的戰車，以色列的駿馬! 」隨後就再看不見他了；厄里叟遂抓住自己的衣服，撕成兩半，
As Elisha watched, he cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And he saw Elijah no more. So taking hold of his own clothes, he tore them in two.
13 然後拾起厄里亞身上掉下來的外衣，回去站在約旦河邊，
Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.
14 拿著從厄里亞身上掉下來的外衣擊打河水說：「上主，厄里亞的天主在那裏﹖」他一擊打河水，河水就左右分開，厄里叟走了過去。
Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.
15 耶里哥的先知弟子們從對面看見了他，就說：「厄里亞的精神已降在厄里叟的身上了。」他們便前來迎接，俯伏在地，叩拜他，
When the sons of the prophets who were facing him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.
16 對他說：「你僕人中有五十個強壯的人，請讓他們去尋找你的師傅，或者上主的神將他提去，丟在一座山上，或一個山谷裏。」他回答說：「不必派他們去。」
“Look now,” they said to Elisha, “we your servants have fifty valiant men. Please let them go and search for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the LORD has taken him up and put him on one of the mountains or in one of the valleys.” “Do not send them,” Elisha replied.
17 但是他們逼得他不好意思，他這纔說：「你們派人去罷! 」他們於是派了五十個人去，尋找了三天，始終沒有找到，
But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.
18 便回來見厄里叟，那時厄里叟還在耶里哥。厄里叟對他們說：「我不是對你們早說了，你們不必去嗎﹖」
When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
19 城中的人對厄里叟說：「請看，本城的地勢很好，師傅也看見了，只是水不好，以致土產不熟即落。」
Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”
20 厄里叟說：「給我拿一隻新碗來，裏面放上些鹽。」他們就給他拿了來；
“Bring me a new bowl,” he replied, “and put some salt in it.” So they brought it to him,
21 他遂出去到水泉旁，將鹽倒在水裏說：「上主這樣說：我已治好了這水，從此再也不會引起死亡和不熟早落的病。」
and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”
22 果然，照厄里叟所說的，那水直到今日常是好水。
And the waters there have been healthy to this day, according to the word spoken by Elisha.
23 厄里叟從那裏上貝特耳去，當他沿路上去的時候，從城中出來一些小孩，譏笑他說：「光頭，上來! 光頭，上來! 」
From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
24 厄里叟回過頭去看他們，因上主的名詛咒了他們；立即有兩隻狗熊從林中出來，咬死了其中四十二個孩子。
Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
25 厄里叟從那裏去了加爾默耳山，然後又從那裏回了撒瑪黎雅。
And Elisha went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
