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-\v 1 One day the widow of one of Yahweh's prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, "My husband, who worked with you, is dead. You know that he revered Yahweh very much. But now someone to whom he owed a lot of money has come to me. I cannot pay him back, so he is threatening to take away my two sons to be his slaves as payment!"
+\v 1 One day, the widow of one of Yahweh's prophets came to Elisha and cried out to him, "My husband, who worked with you, is dead. You know that he revered Yahweh very much. But now someone to whom he owed a lot of money has come to me. I cannot pay him back, so he is threatening to take away my two sons to be his slaves as payment!"
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 \v 2 Elisha replied, "What can I do to help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?"
 \p She replied, "We have only a container of olive oil. We have nothing else."
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-\v 8 One day Elisha went to the city of Shunem. There was a wealthy woman who lived there with her husband. One day she invited Elisha to her house for a meal. Elisha went there, and from then on every time Elisha was in Shunem he went to their house to eat a meal.
-\v 9 One day the woman said to her husband, "I am sure that this man who often comes here is a prophet who brings messages from God.
+\v 8 One day, Elisha went to the city of Shunem. There was a wealthy woman who lived there with her husband. One day she invited Elisha to her house for a meal. Elisha went there, and from then on every time Elisha was in Shunem he went to their house to eat a meal.
+\v 9 One day, the woman said to her husband, "I am sure that this man who often comes here is a prophet who brings messages from God.
 
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-\v 10 I think we should make a small room for him on our flat roof, and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it. If we do that, whenever he comes here, he will have a place to stay." So they did that.
+\v 10 I think we should make a small room for him on our flat roof and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it. If we do that, whenever he comes here, he will have a place to stay." So they did that.
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-\v 11 One day Elisha returned to Shunem, and he went up to that room to rest.
+\v 11 One day, Elisha returned to Shunem, and he went up to that room to rest.
 
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 \v 12 He said to his servant Gehazi, "Tell the woman that I want to speak to her." So the servant went and told her. When she came to the doorway of Elisha's room,
 \v 13 Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tell her that we are both grateful for all the kind things that she has done for us. Then ask her what we can do for her. Ask, 'Do you want me to go to the king or the army commander to request something for you?'"
-\p Gehazi gave her this message. She replied, "No, your master does not need to do that, because my family are able to give me what I need."
+\p Gehazi gave her this message. She replied, "No, your master does not need to do that, because my family is able to give me what I need."
 
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 \p He replied, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is an old man."
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 \v 15 Elisha told Gehazi, "Call her back again." So Gehazi went and called her. And when the woman returned, as she stood in the doorway,
-\v 16 Elisha said to her, "About this time next year you will be holding your infant son in your arms." But she protested, "Oh, Sir, you are a prophet who brings messages from God, so please do not deceive me by saying things like that!"
+\v 16 Elisha said to her, "About this time next year, you will be holding your infant son in your arms." But she protested, "Oh sir, you are a prophet who brings messages from God, so please do not deceive me by saying things like that!"
 
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-\v 17 But a few months later, the woman became pregnant, and she gave birth to a son at that time the following year, just like Elisha had predicted.
+\v 17 But a few months later, the woman became pregnant, and she gave birth to a son at that time the following year, just as Elisha had predicted.
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 \v 18 When the child was growing up, one day he went out to the fields to see his father, who was working with the men who were harvesting grain.
 \v 19 Suddenly the boy exclaimed, "My head hurts! My head hurts!"
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 \v 21 She carried him up the steps to the prophet's room and laid him on the bed. She left him there and went out and shut the door.
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-\v 22 She then called out to her husband, saying, "Send to me one of the servants and a donkey so that I can ride on it quickly to the prophet, and then come back!" But she did not tell her husband that their son had died.
+\v 22 She then called out to her husband, saying, "Send to me one of the servants and a donkey so that I can ride on it quickly to the prophet and then come back!" But she did not tell her husband that their son had died.
 
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 \v 24 So she saddled the donkey and said to her servant, "Lead the donkey! Do not slow down for me unless I tell you to do so!"
 
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-\v 25 As they approached Mount Carmel, where Elisha was, Elisha saw her in the distance. He said to Gehazi, "Look, the woman from Shunem is coming!
+\v 25 As they approached Mount Carmel where Elisha was, Elisha saw her in the distance. He said to Gehazi, "Look, the woman from Shunem is coming!
 \v 26 Run to her, and ask her if everything is all right with her and her husband and with her child!"
 \p So Gehazi ran to her and asked her, but she said nothing to Gehazi except, "Yes, everything is fine."
 
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 \v 28 Then she said to Elisha, "O sir, I did not request you to enable me to give birth to a son, but I did say, 'Do not lie to me.'"
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-\v 29 Then Elisha realized that something must have happened to her son. So he said to Gehazi, "Get ready to leave immediately. Take my staff stick and go to her home. Do not stop to talk to anyone on the way. Go quickly to where her son is and lay the staff on the child's face. If you do that, perhaps Yahweh will cause him to live again."
+\v 29 Then Elisha realized that something must have happened to her son. So he said to Gehazi, "Get ready to leave immediately. Take my walking stick and go to her home. Do not stop to talk to anyone on the way. Go quickly to where her son is and lay the staff on the child's face. If you do that, perhaps Yahweh will cause him to live again."
 
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 \v 30 But the boy's mother said, "Just as certain as Yahweh lives and you live, I will not go home if you do not go with me." So Elisha returned with her to her home.
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 \v 31 But Gehazi hurried quickly ahead. When he got to the woman's home, he laid the staff on the child's face, but the child did not move or say anything.
-\p So Gehazi returned to meet Elisha along the road, and told him, "The child is still dead."
+\p So Gehazi returned to meet Elisha along the road and told him, "The child is still dead."
 
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 \v 32 When Elisha reached the house, he saw that the boy was lying dead on his bed.
 \v 33 Elisha went into the room by himself and shut the door and prayed to Yahweh.
-\v 34 Then he lay down on the boy's body, and put his mouth on the boy's mouth, and put his eyes on the boy's eyes, and put his hands on the boy's hands. Then the boy's body started to become warm!
+\v 34 Then he lay down on the boy's body and put his mouth on the boy's mouth and put his eyes on the boy's eyes and put his hands on the boy's hands. Then the boy's body started to become warm!
 
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 \v 35 Elisha got up and walked back and forth in the room several times. Then he stretched his body on the boy's body again. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes!
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-\v 38 Then Elisha returned to Gilgal. But at that time there was a famine in that area. One day as the association of prophets was sitting in front of Elisha listening to what he was teaching, he said to his servant, "Put a large pot on the fire and make some stew for these men."
+\v 38 Then Elisha returned to Gilgal. But at that time there was a famine in that area. One day, as the association of prophets was sitting in front of Elisha listening to what he was teaching, he said to his servant, "Put a large pot on the fire and make some stew for these men."
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 \v 39 One of the prophets went out to the fields to gather some vegetables. But he gathered only some wild gourds and put them in his cloak and brought them back. He shredded them and put them in the pot, but he did not know that the gourds were poisonous.
 
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-\v 42 One day a man from the city of Baal Shalisha brought to Elisha a sack of freshly cut grain and twenty loaves of barley bread, made from the first grain that they had harvested that year.
-\p Elisha said to his servant, "Give it to the group of prophets, so that they can eat it."
+\v 42 One day, a man from the city of Baal Shalishah brought to Elisha a sack of freshly cut grain and twenty loaves of barley bread, made from the first grain that they had harvested that year.
+\p Elisha said to his servant, "Give it to the group of prophets so that they can eat it."
 \v 43 But his servant exclaimed, "Do you think that we can feed a hundred of us prophets with only that much? How can I place this before them all?"
 \p But Elisha replied, "Give it to the prophets so that they can eat it, because Yahweh says that there will be plenty for all of them, and there will be some left over!"
 \v 44 After his servant gave it to the prophets, they ate all that they wanted, and there was food left over, just as Yahweh had promised.
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 \v 1 A man named Naaman was the commander of the army of Aram. Yahweh had enabled him to win many victories, and the king of Aram admired and honored him. Naaman was also a strong and brave soldier, but he had leprosy.
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-\v 2 Some time previously, groups of soldiers had invaded the land of Israel, and they had captured a young girl and taken her to Aram. She became a servant for Naaman's wife.
+\v 2 Sometime previously, groups of soldiers had invaded the land of Israel, and they had captured a young girl and taken her to Aram. She became a servant for Naaman's wife.
 
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 \v 3 One day, that girl said to her, "I wish that my master would go to see the prophet in the city of Samaria. That prophet would heal your husband from his leprosy."
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-\v 11 But Naaman became very angry. He said, "I thought that surely he would wave his hand over the leprosy, and pray to Yahweh, and heal me!
+\v 11 But Naaman became very angry. He said, "I thought that surely he would wave his hand over the leprosy and pray to Yahweh and heal me!
 \v 12 Surely the Abana River and the Pharpar River in Damascus in my own country of Aram have better water than any in Israel! Can I not go into my rivers at home and be healed and cleansed?" So he turned and walked away in great disgust.
 
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-\v 13 But his servants came to him, and one of them said, "Sir, if that prophet had told you to do something difficult, you would certainly have done it. So why do you refuse to do such a simple thing he asks, when he says, "Go down seven times in the water and be clean?'"
+\v 13 But his servants came to him, and one of them said, "Sir, if that prophet had told you to do something difficult, you would certainly have done it. So why do you refuse to do such a simple thing he asks when he says, "Go down seven times in the water and be clean?'"
 \v 14 So Naaman went down to the Jordan River and went into the water seven times, as the prophet had instructed, and his skin became healthy, like the smooth skin of a young child.
 
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 \v 17 Then Naaman said, "Very well, but I have one request. This soil here in Israel is Yahweh's soil, so please allow me to take some soil from this place and put it in sacks on two mules. Then I will take it back home with me and make an altar on this soil. From now on, I will offer sacrifices to Yahweh on that altar. I will not offer sacrifices to any other god.
-\v 18 However, when my master, the king, goes into the temple of the god Rimmon to worship him, I ask that Yahweh will forgive me because I will have to bow down, too."
+\v 18 However, when my master the king goes into the temple of the god Rimmon to worship him, I ask that Yahweh will forgive me because I will also have to bow down."
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 \v 19 Elisha replied, "Go home, and do not worry about that." So Naaman and his servants started to travel home.
 
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 \v 26 Elisha asked him, "Do you not realize that my spirit was there when Naaman got out of his chariot to talk with you? This is certainly not the time to accept gifts of money and clothes and olive groves and vineyards and sheep and oxen and servants!
-\v 27 Because you have done this, you and your children and all your descendants, forever, will have leprosy just like Naaman had!" When Gehazi left the room, he was a leper. His skin was as white as snow.
+\v 27 Because you have done this, you and your children and all your descendants will forever have leprosy, just as Naaman had!" When Gehazi left the room, he was a leper. His skin was as white as snow.
 
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-\v 1 One day the association of prophets said to Elisha, "Look, this place where we meet together with you is very small.
+\v 1 One day, the association of prophets said to Elisha, "Look, this place where we meet together with you is very small.
 \v 2 Allow us to go to the Jordan River and cut down some trees to make logs to build a new meeting place." So Elisha said, "Very well, go."
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 \v 3 One of them said to Elisha, "Please come with us." So Elisha replied, "Very well, I will go with you."