1 Kings 17:10–15

¹⁰So he arose and went to Zarephath and came to the gate of the city. There was a widow woman gathering wood, so he called to her, and he said, “Please bring a little water for me in a vessel so that I can drink.” ¹¹She went to fetch it, and he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.” ¹²She said, “As Yahweh your God lives,^k surely I do not have a cake, but only a handful of flour^l in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I am gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die.” ¹³Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do according to your word; only make for me a small bread cake from it first, and bring it out to me. Make it for yourself and for your son afterward. ¹⁴For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: ‘The jar of flour will not be emptied and the jug of olive oil will not run out until the day Yahweh gives rain on the surface of the earth.’ ” ¹⁵So she went and did according to the word of Elijah; then both she and he ate with her household for many days.