II Kings 2

vayehi beha'alot Adonai et-eliyyahu basarah hashamayim vayyelekh eliyyahu ve'elisha min-haggilgal

When GOD was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha had set out from Gilgal.

vayyomer eliyyahu el-elisha shev-na foh ki Adonai shelakhani ad-bet-el vayyomer elisha khay-Adonai vekhe-nafshekha im-e'ezvekka vayyeredu bet-el

Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here, for GOD has sent me on to Bethel.” “As GOD lives and as you live,” said Elisha, “I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.

vayyetse'u vene-hannevi'im asher-bet-el el-elisha vayyomeru elayw hayadata ki hayyom Adonai loqeakh et-adonekha me'al roshekha vayyomer gam-ani yadati hekheshu

Disciples of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that GOD will take your master away from you today?” He replied, “I know it, too; be silent.”

vayyomer lo eliyyahu elisha shev-na foh ki Adonai shelakhani yerikho vayyomer khay-Adonai vekhe-nafshekha im-e'ezvekka vayyavo'u yerikho

Then Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for GOD has sent me on to Jericho.” “As GOD lives and as you live,” said Elisha, “I will not leave you.” So they went on to Jericho.

vayyiggeshu vene-hannevi'im asher-birikho el-elisha vayyomeru elayw hayadata ki hayyom Adonai loqeakh et-adonekha me'al roshekha vayyomer gam-ani yadati hekheshu

The disciples of the prophets who were at Jericho came over to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that GOD will take your master away from you today?” He replied, “I know it, too; be silent.”

vayyomer lo eliyyahu shev-na foh ki Adonai shelakhani hayyardenah vayyomer khay-Adonai vekhe-nafshekha im-e'ezvekka vayyelekhu shenehem

Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for GOD has sent me on to the Jordan.” “As GOD lives and as you live, I will not leave you,” he said, and the two of them went on.

vakhamishim ish mibbene hannevi'im halekhu vayya'amdu minneged merakhoq ushenehem amedu al-hayyarden

Fifty of the disciples of the prophets followed and stood by at a distance as the two of them stopped at the Jordan.

vayyiqqakh eliyyahu et-addarto vayyiglom vayyakkeh et-hammayim vayyekhatsu hennah vahennah vayya'avru shenehem bekharavah

Thereupon Elijah took his mantle and, rolling it up, he struck the water; it divided to the right and left, so that the two of them crossed over on dry land.

vayehi khe'ovram ve'eliyyahu amar el-elisha she'al mah e'eseh-llakh beterem ellaqakh me'immakh vayyomer elisha vihi na pi-shenayim berukhakha elay

As they were crossing, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” Elisha answered, “Let a double portion of your spirit pass on to me.”

vayyomer hiqshita lishol im-tireh oti luqqakh me'ittakh yehi-lekha khen ve'im-ayin lo yihyeh

“You have asked a difficult thing,” he said. “If you see me as I am being taken from you, this will be granted to you; if not, it will not.”

vayehi hemmah holekhim halokh vedabber vehinneh rekhev-esh vesuse esh vayyafridu ben shenehem vayya'al eliyyahu basarah hashamayim

As they kept on walking and talking, a fiery chariot with fiery horses suddenly appeared and separated one from the other; and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.

ve'elisha ro'eh vehu metsa'eq avi avi rekhev yisra'el ufarashayw velo ra'ahu od vayyakhazeq bivgadayw vayyiqra'em lishnayim qera'im

Elisha saw it, and he cried out, “Oh, father, father! Israel’s chariots and riders!” When he could no longer see him, he grasped his garments and rent them in two.

vayyarem et-adderet eliyyahu asher nafelah me'alayw vayyashov vayya'amod al-sefat hayyarden

He picked up Elijah’s mantle, which had dropped from him; and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

vayyiqqakh et-adderet eliyyahu asher-nafelah me'alayw vayyakkeh et-hammayim vayyomar ayyeh Adonai elohe eliyyahu af-hu vayyakkeh et-hammayim vayyekhatsu hennah vahennah vayya'avor elisha

Taking the mantle that had dropped from Elijah, he struck the water and said, “Where is the ETERNAL, the God of Elijah?” As he too struck the water, it parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.

vayyiruhu vene-hannevi'im asher-birikho minneged vayyomeru nakhah ruakh eliyyahu al-elisha vayyavo'u liqrato vayyishtakhavu-lo aretsah

When the disciples of the prophets at Jericho saw him from a distance, they exclaimed, “The spirit of Elijah has settled on Elisha!” And they went to meet him and bowed low before him to the ground.

vayyomeru elayw hinneh-na yesh-et-avadekha khamishim anashim bene-khayil yelekhu na vivaqshu et-adonekha pen-nesa'o ruakh Adonai vayyashlikhehu be'akhad heharim o be'akhat (hgyvt) [hagge'ayot] vayyomer lo tishlakhu

They said to him, “Your servants have fifty able men with them. Let them go and look for your master; perhaps the spirit of GOD has carried him off and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” “Do not send them,” he replied.

vayyiftseru-vo ad-bosh vayyomer shelakhu vayyishlekhu khamishim ish vayevaqshu sheloshah-yamim velo metsa'uhu

But they kept pressing him for a long time, until he said, “Send them.” So they sent out fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find him.

vayyashuvu elayw vehu yoshev birikho vayyomer alehem halo-amarti alekhem al-telekhu

They came back to him while he was still in Jericho; and he said to them, “I told you not to go.”

vayyomeru anshe ha'ir el-elisha hinneh-na moshav ha'ir tov ka'asher adoni ro'eh vehammayim ra'im veha'arets meshakkalet

The leaders of the town said to Elisha, “Look, the town is a pleasant place to live in, as my lord can see; but the water is bad and the land causes bereavement.”

vayyomer qekhu-li tselokhit khadashah vesimu sham melakh vayyiqkhu elayw

He responded, “Bring me a new dish and put salt in it.” They brought it to him;

vayyetse el-motsa hammayim vayyashlekh-sham melakh vayyomer koh-amar Adonai rippiti lammayim ha'elleh lo-yihyeh misham od mavet umeshakkalet

he went to the spring and threw salt into it. And he said, “Thus said GOD: I heal this water; no longer shall death and bereavement come from it!”

vayyerafu hammayim ad hayyom hazzeh kidvar elisha asher dibber

The water has remained wholesome to this day, in accordance with the word spoken by Elisha.

vayya'al misham bet-el vehu oleh vadderekh une'arim qetannim yatse'u min-ha'ir vayyitqallesu-vo vayyomeru lo aleh qereakh aleh qereakh

From there he went up to Bethel. As he was going up the road, some little boys came out of the town and jeered at him, saying, “Go away, baldhead! Go away, baldhead!”

vayyifen akharayw vayyirem vayeqallem beshem Adonai vattetsenah shetayim dubbim min-hayya'ar vattevaqqanah mehem arba'im ushene yeladim

He turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the name of GOD. Thereupon, two she-bears came out of the woods and mangled forty-two of the children.

vayyelekh misham el-har hakkarmel umisham shav shomeron

He went on from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.