4 ¹ Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant feared Yahweh, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves." 4 ² And Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?" And she said, "Your maidservant has nothing in the house, except a jar of oil." 4 ³ Then he said, "Go outside, borrow vessels of all your neighbours, empty vessels and not too few. 4 ⁴ Then go in, and shut the door upon yourself and your sons, and pour into all these vessels; and when one is full, set it aside." 4 ⁵ So she went from him and shut the door upon herself and her sons; and as she poured they brought the vessels to her. 4 ⁶ When the vessels were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another vessel." And he said to her, "There is not another." Then the oil stopped flowing. 4 ⁷ She came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest."