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Et ait unus ex illis: Veni ergo et tu cum servis tuis. Respondit: Ego veniam.

Et abiit cum eis. Cumque venissent ad Jordanem, caedebant ligna.

Accidit autem ut cum unus materiam succidisset, caderet ferrum securis in aquam: exclamavitque ille, et ait: Heu! heu! heu! domine mi: et hoc ipsum mutuo acceperam.

Dixit autem homo Dei: Ubi cecidit? At ille monstravit ei locum. Praecidit ergo lignum, et misit illuc: natavitque ferrum,

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Then one of them said, “Won’t you please come with your servants?”

“I will,” Elisha replied. And he went with them.

They went to the Jordan and began to cut down trees. As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axhead fell into the water. “Oh no, my lord!” he cried out. “It was borrowed!”

The man of God asked, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, Elisha cut a stick and threw(A) it there, and made the iron float.

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