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Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah[a] of fine flour will be sold for a shekel,[b] and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?”

He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said to one another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

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Footnotes

  1. 7:1 1 seah is about 7 liters or 1.9 gallons or 0.8 pecks
  2. 7:1 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces. In this context, it was probably a silver coin weighing that much.