2 Kings 5:14 CPDV

¹²  Are not the Abana and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, so that I might wash in them and be cleansed?' But then, after he had turned himself away and was leaving with indignation,

¹³  his servants approached him, and they said to him: 'If the prophet had told you, father, to do something great, certainly you ought to have done it. How much more so, now that he has said to you: 'Wash, and you will be clean?'

¹⁴  So he descended and washed in the Jordan seven times, in accord with the word of the man of God. And his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child. And he was made clean.

¹⁵  And returning to the man of God, with his entire retinue, he arrived, and stood before him, and he said: 'Truly, I know there is no other God, in all the earth, except in Israel. And so I beg you to accept a blessing from your servant.'

¹⁶  But he responded, 'As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.' And though he urged him strongly, he did not agree at all.