Léctio libri primi Regum (17,10-16)
In diébus illis: Surréxit Elías prophétæ et abiit in Saréphta. Cumque venísset ad portam civitátis, appáruit ei múlier vídua colligens ligna; et vocavit eam, dixitque ei: « Da mihi páululum aqure in vase ut bibam ». Cumque illa pérgeret ut afférret, clamávit post tergum eius dicens: « Affer mihi, óbsecro, et buccéllam panis in manu tua ». Quæ respondit: « Vivit Dóminus Deus tuus quia non hábeo panem, nisi quantum pugíllus capere potest farínæ in hýdria, et páululum ólei in lécytho. En cólligo duo ligna ut ingrédiar, et fáciam illum mihi et fílio meo, ut comedamus et moriamur ». Ad quam Elías ait: « Noli timére, sed vade et fac sicut dixísti; verumtamen mihi primum fac de ipsa farínula subcinericium panem párvulum, et affer ad me; tibi autem et fílio tuo facies postea. Hæc autem dicit Dóminus Deus lsrael: "Hýdria farínæ non defíciet, nec lécythus olei minuétur, usque ad diem in qua Dóminus datúrus est pluviam super faciem terræ" ». Quæ ábiit et fecit iuxta verbum Elíæ, et comédit ipse et illa et domus eius; et ex illa die hýdria farínæ non defécit, et lécythus ólei non est imminútus iuxta verbum Dómini, quod locutus fúerat in manu Elíæ.
In those days; Eliah arose and went into Sareptha. And when he was come to the gate of the city, the widow woman appeared to him gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And when she went to fetch it, he cried after her saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand. who answered: Our Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but so much meal in a pot as a hand can hold, and a little oil in a vessel: behold I gather two sticks, that I may go in, and dress it for me & my son, that we may eat, and die. To whom Elias said: fear not, but go, and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, & bring it to me: & for thyself & thy son thou shalt make afterward. For thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not fail, nor the vessel of oil be diminished until the day, wherein our Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth. Who went and did according to the word of Elias: and he did eat, and she, and her house: and from that day the pot of meal failed not, and the vessel of oil was not diminished, according to the word of our Lord, which he spake in the hand of Elias.
