^{1 Ref} Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

^{2 Ref} Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.

^{3 Ref} Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.

^{4 Ref} Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones.