8Elisha said to the woman whose son he had restored to life,^m “Get ready, you and your household, and go live as a resident alien wherever you can. For the Lord has announced a seven-year famine,ⁿ and it has already come to the land.”

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m 2Kg 4:8–37
n Gn 41:27,54

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Go away with your family and stay for a while wherever you can, because the Lord has decreed a famine in the land that will last seven years.”

NLTNew Living Translation

Elisha had told the woman whose son he had brought back to life, “Take your family and move to some other place, for the Lord has called for a famine on Israel that will last for seven years.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Get up and go, you and your household, and dwell as an alien wherever you can, for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will come to the land for seven years.”

KJV 1900King James Version

Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

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