The Multiplied Bread

42 A man from Baal-shalishah(A) came to the man of God with his sack full of[a] twenty loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”(B)

43 But Elisha’s attendant asked, “What? Am I to set this before a hundred men?” (C)

“Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said, “for this is what the Lord says: ‘They will eat, and they will have some left over.’” 44 So he set it before them, and as the Lord had promised, they ate and had some left over.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:42 Or with some heads of fresh grain and

42 One day a man from Baal-shalishah brought the man of God a sack of fresh grain and twenty loaves of barley bread made from the first grain of his harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”

43 “What?” his servant exclaimed. “Feed a hundred people with only this?”

But Elisha repeated, “Give it to the people so they can eat, for this is what the Lord says: Everyone will eat, and there will even be some left over!” 44 And when they gave it to the people, there was plenty for all and some left over, just as the Lord had promised.

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