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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 there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying: 'Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD; and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.'

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。」

And Elisha said unto her: 'What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house?' And she said: 'Thy handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot 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；

Then he said: 'Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not 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。」

And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full.'

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 went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons; they brought the vessels to her, and she poured out.

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。

And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son: 'Bring me yet a vessel.' And he said unto her: 'There is not a vessel more.' And the oil stayed.

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。」

Then she came and told the man of God. And he said: 'Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.'

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。

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

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。

And she said unto her husband: 'Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually.

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。」

Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the roof; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick; and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.'

11 一天，厄里叟又到了那裏，就進入那間小房休息。

And it fell on a day, that he came thither, and he turned into the upper chamber and lay there.

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 this Shunammite.' 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 he said unto him: 'Say now unto her: Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?' And she answered: 'I dwell among mine own people.'

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。」

And he said: 'What then is to be done for her?' And Gehazi answered: 'Verily she hath no son, 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，

And he said: 'Call her.' And when he had called her, she stood in the door.

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 he said: 'At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son.' And she said: 'Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.'

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。

And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said unto 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 when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.

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! 」

And he said unto his father: 'My head, my head.' And he said to his 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。

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then 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, and shut the door upon him, 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 she called unto her husband, and said: 'Send me, I pray thee, one of the servants, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come back.'

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! 」

And he said: Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.' And she said: 'It shall be well.'

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 an ass, and said to her servant: 'Drive, and go forward; slacken me not the riding, except I bid thee.'

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 went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant: 'Behold, yonder is that Shunammite.

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。」

Run, I pray thee, now to meet her, and say unto her: Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child?' And she answered: 'It is well.'

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。」

And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said: 'Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her; and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath 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 desire a son of my lord? did I not 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。」

Then he said to Gehazi: 'Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go thy way; if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not; and lay my staff upon the face of the child.'

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 child said: 'As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee.' And he arose, 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。」

And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying: 'The child is not awaked.'

32 厄里叟一來到她家，看見孩子死了，躺在自己的床上，

And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

33 就進去，關上門，房內只有他和孩子；先知哀求了上主，

He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto 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。

And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and he stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of the child waxed 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。

Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him; and the child sneezed seven times, and the child 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! 」

And he called Gehazi, and said: 'Call this Shunammite.' So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said: 'Take up thy 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。

Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed down to the ground; and she took 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。」

And Elisha came again to Gilgal; and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant: 'Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage 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。

And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage; for they knew them not.

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。

So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said: 'O man of God, there is death in the pot.' And they could not eat thereof.

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。

But he said: 'Then bring meal.' And he cast it into the pot; and he said: 'Pour out for the people, that they may eat.' And there was no harm 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! 」

And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of corn in his sack. And he said: 'Give unto the people, that they may eat.'

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。」

And his servant said: 'How should I set this before a hundred men?' But he said: 'Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith the LORD: They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.'

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 did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.