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1 And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us. 2 Let us go as far as the Jordan and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go. 3 And one of them said: But come thou also with thy servants. He answered: I will come. 4 So he went with them. And when they were come to the Jordan they cut down wood. 5 And it happened, as one was felling some timber, that the head of the axe fell into the water: and he cried out, and said: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, for this same was borrowed. 2 Kings 6:1-5, Douay-Rheims Bible. Public domain.
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