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2 Kings 4
²⁹ Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand, and go your way; if you meet any man, do not salute him, and if anyone salutes you, do not answer him; and lay my staff on the lad’s face."
³⁰ The mother of the lad said, "As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you." And he arose and followed her.
³¹ Then Gehazi passed on before them and laid the staff on the lad’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he returned to meet him and told him, "The lad has not awakened."
³² When Elisha came into the house, behold the lad was dead and laid on his bed.
³³ So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to the Lord.
³⁴ And 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, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm.
³⁵ Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself on him; and the lad sneezed seven times and the lad opened his eyes.
³⁶ He called Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her. And when she came 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 When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, "Put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."
³⁹ Then one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and sliced them into the pot of stew, for they did not know what they were.