two mules' burden of earth; for your servant will henceforth
offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods,
but to Yahweh.
005:018 In this thing Yahweh pardon your servant: when my master
goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans
on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I
bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon your servant
in this thing.
005:019 He said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him
a little way.
005:020 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold,
my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving
at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives,
I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
005:021 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running
after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said,
Is all well?
005:022 He said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold,
even now there are come to me from the hill country of Ephraim
two young men of the sons of the prophets; please give them
a talent of silver, and two changes of clothing.
005:023 Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. He urged him,
and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two
changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants;
and they bore them before him.
005:024 When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand,
and bestowed them in the house; and he let the men go,
and they departed.
005:025 But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him,
Whence come you, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went no where.
005:026 He said to him, Didn't my heart go with you, when the man turned
from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money,
and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards,
and sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants?
005:027 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you,
and to your seed forever. He went out from his presence
a leper [as white] as snow.
006:001 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place
where we dwell before you is too strait for us.
006:002 Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man
a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell.
He answered, Go you.
006:003 One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants.
He answered, I will go.
006:004 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan,
they cut down wood.
006:005 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water;
and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.
006:006 The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place.
He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
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