<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him<n id="1" /> and he told his servant, &#8220;Put the big pot on the fire<n id="2" /> and boil some stew for the prophets.&#8221;<n id="3" />

The stew was poured out<n id="1" /> for the men to eat. When they ate some of the stew, they cried out, &#8220;Death is in the pot, O prophet!&#8221; They could not eat it.

Someone went out to the field to gather some herbs and found a wild vine.<n id="1" /> He picked some of its fruit,<n id="2" /> enough to fill up the fold of his robe. He came back, cut it up, and threw the slices<n id="3" /> into the stew pot, not knowing they were harmful.<n id="4" />