THE MULTIPLIED BREAD

42 A man from Baal-shalishahh came to the man of God with his sack full ofB twenty loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”i

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

“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.k