Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.
2 Kings 6:2 - Revised Standard Version Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let us go to the Jordan, and each man get there a [house] beam; and let us make us a place there where we may dwell. And he answered, Go. American Standard Version (1901) Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. Common English Bible Let’s go to the Jordan River and each get a log from there. Then we can make a place to live there.” Elisha said, “Do it!” Catholic Public Domain Version Let us go as far as the Jordan, and let us each take from the forest a piece of timber, so that we may build for ourselves a place to live there." And he said, "Go." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let us go as far as the Jordan and take out of the wood every man a piece of timber, that we may build us there a place to dwell in. And he said: Go. |
Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.
Then one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.”
Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat; but that night they caught nothing.
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?
For you remember our labor and toil, brethren; we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you, while we preached to you the gospel of God.
we did not eat any one's bread without paying, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.