4 Kings 4:13-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

13. He said to his servant: Say to her Behold thou hast diligently served us in all things, what wilt thou have me to de for thee? hast thou any business, and wilt thou that I speak to the king, or to the general of the army? And she answered: I dwell in the midst of my own people.

14. And he said: What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she hath no son, and her husband is old.

15. Then he bid him call her: And when she was called, and stood before the door.

16. He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life accompany, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid.

17. And the woman conceived, and brought forth a son in the time, and at the same hour, that Eliseus had said.

18. And the child grew. And on a certain day, when he went out to his father to the reapers,

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