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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；
So it came about, when Yahweh was going to take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah left with Elisha 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。
Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, please, because Yahweh has sent me to Bethel.” Elisha replied, “As Yahweh lives, and as you 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。」
The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from you today?” Elisha replied, “Yes, I know it, but do not talk about 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。
Elijah said to him, “Elisha, wait here, please, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.” Then Elisha replied, “As Yahweh lives, and as you 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 who were at Jericho came to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from you today?” Elisha answered, “Yes, I know it, but do not talk about 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。
Then Elijah said to him, “Stay here, please, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan.” Elisha replied, “As Yahweh lives, and as you live, I will not leave you.” So the two 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，
Later, fifty of the sons of the prophets stood opposite them at a distance while the two 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。
Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water with it. The river divided on both sides so that the two of them walked 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。」
It came about, after they had crossed over, that Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask me what I should do for you before I am taken from you.” Elisha replied, “Please let a double portion of your spirit come on me.”
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。」
Elijah answered, “You have asked for a difficult thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, this will happen for you, but if not, it will not happen.”
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 still went on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared, which separated the two men from each other, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
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，
Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!” He saw Elijah no more, and he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into two pieces.
13 然後拾起厄里亞身上掉下來的外衣，回去站在約旦河邊，
He picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen off him, and went back to stand by 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。
He struck the water with Elijah's cloak that had fallen and said, “Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?” When he had struck the waters, they divided on both sides 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 from Jericho saw him across from them, they said, “The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha!” So they came to meet him, and bowed themselves 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。」
They said to him, “See now, among your servants there are fifty strong men. Let them go, we ask, and look for your master, in case the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up and thrown him onto some mountain or into some valley.” Elisha answered, “No, do not send them.”
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 urged Elisha until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.” Then they sent fifty men, and they looked for three days, but did not find him.
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﹖」
They came back to Elisha, while he stayed at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, 'Do not 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。」
The men of the city said to Elisha, “See, we beg of you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my master can see, but the water is bad and the land is not fruitful.”
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；
Elisha replied, “Bring me a new bowl and put 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。」
Elisha went out to the spring of water and threw salt in it; then he said, “Yahweh says this, 'I have healed these waters. From this time on, there will be no more death or unfruitful land.'”
22 果然，照厄里叟所說的，那水直到今日常是好水。
So the waters were healed to this day, by the word which Elisha spoke.
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! 」
Then Elisha went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up the road, young boys came out of the city and mocked him; they said to him, “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。
Elisha looked behind him and saw them; he called on Yahweh to curse them. Then two female bears came out of the woods and injured 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。
Then Elisha went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
