7 Fifty men from the company of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing the place where Elijah and Elisha had stopped at the Jordan. 8 Elijah took his cloak,h rolled it up and strucki the water with it. The water dividedj to the right and to the left, and the two of them crossed over on dryk ground.

9 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?”

“Let me inherit a doublel portion of your spirit,”m Elisha replied.

10 “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.”

11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of firen and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaveno in a whirlwind.p 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariotsq and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and torer it in two.

13 Elisha then picked up Elijah’s cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. 14 He took the cloaks that had fallen from Elijah and struckt the water with it. “Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?” he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over.