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1 有一個先知弟子的妻子，前來哀求厄里叟說：「你的僕人，我的丈夫死了，你知道你的僕人是一個敬畏上主的人；現在債主前來，要帶走我的兩個孩子，作他的奴隸。」
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
2 厄里叟對她說：「我能為你做什麼﹖你告訴我：你家裏還有什麼﹖」她答說：「你的婢女家裏除一瓶油外，什麼也沒有。」
“How can I help you?” asked Elisha. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” She answered, “Your servant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”
3 厄里叟說：「你去，到外面向你所有的鄰居借些空器皿，不要少借；
“Go,” said Elisha, “borrow jars, even empty ones, from all your neighbors. Do not gather just a few.
4 然後回家，關上門，你和你的兒子在家裏，將油倒在所有的那些器皿內，把裝滿了的，放在一邊。」
Then go inside, shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour oil into all these jars, setting the full ones aside.”
5 她於是辭別厄里叟，回去照辦。她和她的兒子關上門，兒子給她遞器皿，她只顧倒油，
So she left him, and after she had shut the door behind her and her sons, they kept bringing jars to her, and she kept pouring.
6 器皿都裝滿了，她對兒子說：「再遞給我器皿! 」兒子答說：「沒有了。」同時油也止住了。
When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
7 婦人就去告訴天主的人。厄里叟對她說：「你去把油賣了，還了你的債；剩下的，你和你的兒子可用來過活。」
She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt. Then you and your sons can live on the remainder.”
8 有一天，厄里叟路過叔能，那裏有一個富貴的婦人，曾挽留他吃飯；因此，厄里叟每次路過那裏，總到她家裡吃飯。
One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
9 婦人對丈夫說：「現在我看出：這個時常路過我們這裏的天主的人，是位聖者。
Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.
10 我們可以在房頂上，給他蓋一間小房，裏面放一張床，一張桌子，一把椅子和一盞燈；這樣，他幾時來到我們這裏，可在那裏休息。」
Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
11 一天，厄里叟又到了那裏，就進入那間小房休息。
One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.
12 厄里叟吩咐自己的僕人革哈齊說：「你叫這位叔能婦人來。」僕人叫了婦人來，婦人站在先知面前，
And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
13 厄里叟吩咐僕人說：「現在你對她說：看，你照顧我們既然這樣周到，我們可為你作什麼呢﹖要不要我們在君王或軍長前為你說句話﹖」那婦人答說：「我住在我本國人民中很平安。」
and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
14 厄里叟就問革哈齊：「我們究竟能為她作什麼﹖」革哈齊說：「可憐她沒有兒子，丈夫又老了。」
So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
15 厄里叟說：「快再叫她來! 」僕人又將婦人叫來，這次她卻站在門口，
“Call her,” said Elisha. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.
16 厄里叟對她說：「明年這時，你必懷抱著一個兒子。」婦人答說：「我主，天主的人哪! 不會! 你別哄騙你的婢女! 」
And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
17 這婦人果然懷了孕；過了一年，在厄里叟對她所說的時候，生了一個兒子。
But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18 孩子漸漸長大，一天，他出去到收割的人那裏找他父親，
And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
19 孩子忽然對他父親喊說：「我的頭! 我的頭啊!」他父親吩咐僕人說：「把孩子送到他母親那裏去! 」
“My head! My head!” he complained to his father. So his father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.”
20 僕人將他抱起，送給他母親，孩子坐在母親膝上，到了中午，就死了。
After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
21 他母親遂上了樓，將孩子放在天主的人的床上，關上門，出來，
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
22 叫自己的丈夫來說：「請你給我派一個僕人，牽一匹驢來，我要快去見見天主的人，就回來。」
And the woman called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may go quickly to the man of God and return.”
23 她丈夫說：「為什麼今天要去見他，既不是朔日，又不是安息日﹖」婦人答說：「你放心好了! 」
“Why would you go to him today?” he replied. “It is not a New Moon or a Sabbath.” “Everything is all right,” she said.
24 於是，她把驢備好，對僕人說：「你快趕著走，我若不吩咐，在路上不要停下來。」
Then she saddled the donkey and told her servant, “Drive onward; do not slow the pace for me unless I tell you.”
25 婦人於是來到加爾默耳山見天主的人。天主的人自遠處看見她，就對自己的僕人革哈齊說：「看，那是叔能婦人!
So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
26 現在你跑去迎接她，向她問安說：你好嗎﹖你的丈夫好嗎﹖你的孩子好嗎﹖」她回答說：好。」
Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
27 婦人上到山上，來到天主的人跟前，就抱住他的腳；革哈齊前來想推開她，可是天主的人說：「由她罷! 因為她心中很痛苦；上主隱瞞了我，什麼也沒有告訴我。」
When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
28 那婦人說：「我何嘗向我主求過一個兒子﹖我豈不是說過：你不要哄騙我嗎﹖」
Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
29 厄里叟對革哈齊說：「你束上腰，手裏拿著我的棍杖前去；不論遇見誰，不要向他請安；不論誰向你請安，你也不要回答。你去把我的棍杖放在孩子的臉上。」
So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
30 孩子的母親說：「我指著永生的上主及你的性命起誓：你不去，我決不離開。」厄里叟就起身跟她去了。
And the mother of the boy said, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
31 革哈齊在他們以前去了。將棍杖放在孩子的臉上，但是沒有聲音，沒有反應；他便回來見厄里叟，告訴他說：「孩子沒有醒來。」
Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
32 厄里叟一來到她家，看見孩子死了，躺在自己的床上，
When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.
33 就進去，關上門，房內只有他和孩子；先知哀求了上主，
So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.
34 然後上床，伏在孩子身上，自己的口對住孩子的口，自己的眼對住孩子的眼，自己的手按住孩子的手，屈身伏在孩子身上，孩子的肉身便漸漸溫暖了。
Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.
35 然後他下來，在屋內來回走了一趟；又上去，屈身伏在孩子身上，對著孩子呵了七口氣，孩子就睜開了眼睛。
Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36 厄里叟叫革哈齊來，對他說：「你叫叔能婦人來。」他便去叫那婦人，婦人就來了。厄里叟說：「抱起你的孩子來! 」
Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
37 婦人一進來，就俯伏在他腳前，叩首至地；然後起來，抱起自己的孩子出去了。
She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.
38 厄里叟又來到基貝加耳，那地方正遭受肌荒；眾先知的弟子坐在他面前，他吩咐自己的僕人說：「你在火上放一個火鍋，給眾先知的弟子煮些菜湯。」
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
39 有一個弟子出去到田間採菜，看見一棵葡萄樹，從上面採了一滿兜野果子回來，切碎放在菜鍋裏，並不知道是什麼東西。
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
40 以後，他們把菜湯倒出來給眾人吃。眾人一嘗菜湯，都喊叫說：「天主的人，鍋裏有致死的毒物啊! 」眾人都不能吃。
And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.
41 那時厄里叟說：「拿點麵來! 」他把麵撒在鍋裏說：「倒出來給眾人吃罷! 」鍋裏就再沒有什麼毒了。
Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
42 有一個人從巴耳沙里來，在自己的行囊裏，給天主的人帶來了初熟大麥作的二十個餅和一些新麥穗。厄里叟說：「分給眾人吃罷! 」
Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
43 僕人說：「我怎能將這一點東西擺在一百人面前呢﹖」厄里叟說：「你儘管分給中人吃，因此上主這樣說：眾人吃了，還有剩餘。」
But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
44 於是僕人將食物擺在眾人面前，他們都吃了，並且還有剩餘，全應驗了上主的話。
So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.
