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1 Kings 17:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Taking the child, Elijah carried him down into the house from the upper room and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, “See! Your son is alive.”

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The Lord heard the prayer of Elijah; the life breath returned to the child’s body and he lived.

The woman said to Elijah, “Now indeed I know that you are a man of God, and it is truly the word of the Lord that you speak.”

The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.

While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live.

He gave her his hand and raised her up, and when he had called the holy ones and the widows, he presented her alive.

Women received back their dead through resurrection. Some were tortured and would not accept deliverance, in order to obtain a better resurrection.