18 (A)Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not (B)kissed him.”

19 So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed over to him and threw (C)his mantle on him. 20 He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Please (D)let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”

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