November 11, 2012, First Reading

17:10	He rose up and went away to Zarephath. And when he had arrived at the gate of the city, he saw the widowed woman collecting wood, and he called to her. そして彼は彼女に言った, “Give me a little water in a vessel, so that I may drink.”
17:11	And as she was going to bring it, he called out after her, 言って, “Bring me also, お願いです, a morsel of bread in your hand.”
17:12	そして彼女は答えた: “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, except a handful of flour in a jar, and a little oil in a bottle. See, I am collecting a couple of sticks, so that I may go in and make it for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
17:13	And Elijah said to her: "恐れることはありません. But go and do as you have said. でも本当に, first make for me, from the same flour, a little bread baked under ashes, and bring it to me. Then afterward, make some for yourself and for your son.
17:14	主はこう言われるからです, イスラエルの神: ‘The jar of flour will not fail, nor the bottle of oil be diminished, until the day when the Lord will grant rain upon the face of the earth.’ ”
17:15	She went and acted in accord with the word of Elijah. And he ate, and she and her household ate. And from that day,
17:16	the jar of flour did not fail, and the bottle of oil was not diminished, 主の言葉に従って, which he had spoken by the hand of Elijah.

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