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Elijah took his mantle, rolled it, and struck the water with it. The water parted to both sides and they crossed over on dry ground. (2 Kings 2, 8)
After they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, "What shall I do for you before I am taken away from you? Ask me." Elisha said, "Grant that I may have the best of your spirit." (2 Kings 2, 9)
Elijah answered, "Your request is most difficult. Yet if you see me while I am being taken from you, then you shall have it. But if not, you shall not have it." (2 Kings 2, 10)
As they were talking on the way, a chariot of fire with horses of fire stood between them, and Elijah was taken up to heaven in a whirlwind. (2 Kings 2, 11)
Elisha saw him and cried out, "Father, my father, chariots of Israel and its horsemen!" When Elisha lost sight of him, he took hold of his own clothes and tore them. (2 Kings 2, 12)
He then picked up the mantle which had fallen from Elijah and returned to the banks of the Jordan. (2 Kings 2, 13)
There he struck the water with the mantle, but it did not part. So he asked, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" And as he struck the water again it parted. Elisha crossed over. (2 Kings 2, 14)
The fellow prophets of Jericho saw him from the other side, and said, "The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha." And as they came to him, they bowed to the ground before him saying, (2 Kings 2, 15)
"There are fifty valiant men here with us. Let them go in search of Elijah, for it may be that the spirit of Yahweh has left him in some mountain or valley." Elisha replied, "Do not send anyone." (2 Kings 2, 16)
But they insisted so much that Elisha let them go, and they sent fifty men to search for Elijah. (2 Kings 2, 17)
After three days they had not found him and they returned to Elisha, who had stayed in Jericho. He commented, "Did I not tell you not to go?" (2 Kings 2, 18)
The men of the city said to Elisha, "The location of this city is good, as my lord can see, but the water is bad, and so the land is unproductive." (2 Kings 2, 19)
