^4:42Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet⁶⁵—twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain.⁶⁶ Elisha⁶⁷ said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”

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Footnotes

65 Heb “man of God.”
66 On the meaning of the word צִקְלוֹן (tsiqlon), “ear of grain,” see בָּצֵק and M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (), .
67 Heb “he”; the referent (Elisha) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

One day a man from Baal-shalishah brought the man of God a sack of fresh grain and twenty loaves of barley bread made from the first grain of his harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

A man came from Baal-Shalishah and brought food to the man of God: firstfruits and twenty loaves of barley bread, with ripe grain in his sack. He said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.”

KJV 1900King James Version

And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

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