¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying unto them,

² `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, This [is] the beast which ye do eat out of all the beasts which [are] on the earth:

³ any dividing a hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoofs, bringing up the cud, among the beasts, it ye do eat.

⁴ `Only, this ye do not eat -- of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof -- the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof not dividing -- it [is] unclean to you;

⁵ and the rabbit, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof it divideth not -- unclean it [is] to you;

⁶ and the hare, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof hath not divided -- unclean it [is] to you;

⁷ and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up -- unclean it [is] to you.

⁸ `Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come -- unclean they [are] to you.

⁹ `This ye do eat of all which [are] in the waters; any one that hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the brooks, them ye do eat;

¹⁰ and any one that hath not fins and scales in the seas, and in the brooks, of any teeming creature of the waters, and of any creature which liveth, which [is] in the waters -- an abomination they [are] to you;

¹¹ yea, an abomination they are to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and their carcase ye abominate.

¹² `Any one that hath not fins and scales in the waters -- an abomination it [is] to you.

¹³ `And these ye do abominate of the fowl; they are not eaten, an abomination they [are]: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

¹⁴ and the vulture, and the kite after its kind,

¹⁵ every raven after its kind,

¹⁶ and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,

¹⁷ and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

¹⁸ and the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

¹⁹ and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

²⁰ `Every teeming creature which is flying, which is going on four -- an abomination it [is] to you.

²¹ `Only -- this ye do eat of any teeming thing which is flying, which is going on four, which hath legs above its feet, to move with them on the earth;

²² these of them ye do eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind;

²³ and every teeming thing which is flying, which hath four feet -- an abomination it [is] to you.

²⁴ `And by these ye are made unclean, any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean till the evening;

²⁵ and anyone who is lifting up [aught] of their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening: --

²⁶ even every beast which is dividing the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, and the cud is not bringing up -- unclean they [are] to you; any one who is coming against them is unclean.

²⁷ `And any one going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four -- unclean they [are] to you; any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean until the evening;

²⁸ and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening -- unclean they [are] to you.

²⁹ `And this [is] to you the unclean among the teeming things which are teeming on the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after its kind,

³⁰ and the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole;

³¹ these [are] the unclean to you among all which are teeming; any one who is coming against them in their death is unclean till the evening.

³² `And anything on which any one of them falleth, in their death, is unclean, of any vessel of wood or garment or skin or sack, any vessel in which work is done is brought into water, and hath been unclean till the evening, then it hath been clean;

³³ and any earthen vessel, into the midst of which [any] one of them falleth, all that [is] in its midst is unclean, and it ye do break.

³⁴ `Of all the food which is eaten, that on which cometh [such] water, is unclean, and all drink which is drunk in any [such] vessel is unclean;

³⁵ and anything on which [any] of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they [are], yea, unclean they are to you.

³⁶ `Only -- a fountain or pit, a collection of water, is clean, but that which is coming against their carcase is unclean;

³⁷ and when [any] of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown -- it [is] clean;

³⁸ and when water is put on the seed, and [any] of its carcase hath fallen on it -- unclean it [is] to you.

³⁹ `And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening;

⁴⁰ and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening.

⁴¹ `And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten;

⁴² any thing going on the belly, and any going on four, unto every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth -- ye do not eat them, for they [are] an abomination;

⁴³ ye do not make yourselves abominable with any teeming thing which is teeming, nor do ye make yourselves unclean with them, so that ye have been unclean thereby.

⁴⁴ `For I [am] Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth;

⁴⁵ for I [am] Jehovah who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and ye have been holy, for I [am] holy.

⁴⁶ `This [is] a law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature which is moving in the waters, and of every creature which is teeming on the earth,

⁴⁷ to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'

¹ Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. You know that your servant feared Yahweh. Now the creditor has come to take for himself my two children to be slaves."

² Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil."

³ Then he said, "Go, borrow containers from of all your neighbors, even empty containers. Don't borrow just a few.

⁴ You shall go in, and shut the door on you and on your sons, and pour out into all those containers; and you shall set aside that which is full."

⁵ So she went from him, and shut the door on her and on her sons; they brought the containers to her, and she poured out.

⁶ It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son, "Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container." The oil stopped flowing.

⁷ Then she came and told the man of God. He said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; and you and your sons live on the rest."

⁸ It fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

⁹ She said to her husband, "See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passes by us continually.

¹⁰ Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."

¹¹ One day he came there, and he turned into the room and lay there.

¹² He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." When he had called her, she stood before him.

¹³ He said to him, "Say now to her, 'Behold, you have cared for us with all this care. What is to be done for you? Would you like to be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the army?'" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."

¹⁴ He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."

¹⁵ He said, "Call her." When he had called her, she stood in the door.

¹⁶ He said, "At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son." She said, "No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid."

¹⁷ The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

¹⁸ When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.

¹⁹ He said to his father, "My head! My head!" He said to his servant, "Carry him to his mother."

²⁰ When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.

²¹ She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door on him, and went out.

²² She called to her husband, and said, "Please send me one of the servants, and one of the donkeys, that I may run to the man of God, and come again."

²³ He said, "Why would you want go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath." She said, "It's alright."

²⁴ Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don't slow down for me, unless I ask you to."

²⁵ So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, "Behold, there is the Shunammite.

²⁶ Please run now to meet her, and ask her, 'Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?'" She answered, "It is well."

²⁷ When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me."

²⁸ Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"

²⁹ Then he said to Gehazi, "Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again. Then lay my staff on the face of the child."

³⁰ The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.

³¹ Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, "The child has not awakened."

³² When Elisha had come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid on his bed.

³³ He went in therefore, and shut the door on them both, and prayed to Yahweh.

³⁴ He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. He stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.

³⁵ Then he returned, and walked in the house once back and forth; and went up, and stretched himself on him. Then the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

³⁶ He called Gehazi, and said, "Call this Shunammite!" So he called her. When she had come in to him, he said, "Take up your son."

³⁷ Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.

³⁸ Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."

³⁹ One went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered of it wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of stew; for they didn't recognize them.

⁴⁰ So they poured out for the men to eat. It happened, as they were eating of the stew, that they cried out, and said, "Man of God, there is death in the pot!" They could not eat of it.

⁴¹ But he said, "Then bring meal." He cast it into the pot; and he said, "Pour out for the people, that they may eat." There was no harm in the pot.

⁴² A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread of the first fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, "Give to the people, that they may eat."

⁴³ His servant said, "What, should I set this before a hundred men?" But he said, "Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, 'They will eat, and will have some left over.'"

⁴⁴ So he set it before them, and they ate, and left some of it, according to the word of Yahweh.