3. “Go from this place and turn to the east; you must hide yourself in the Wadi Kerith which faces the Jordan.
4. It shall be that you shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the crows to sustain you there.”
5. So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. He went and stayed in the Wadi Kerith which faces the Jordan.
6. The crows were bringing bread and meat in the morning for him and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.
7. It happened after a while that the wadi dried up, because there was no rain in the land.
8. Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
9. “Get up and go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman there, a widow, to sustain you.”
10. So he arose and went to Zarephath and came to the gate of the city. There was a widow woman gathering wood, so he called to her, and he said, “Please bring a little water for me in a vessel so that I can drink.”
11. She went to fetch it, and he called to her and said, “Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”
12. She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, surely I do not have a cake, but only a handful of flour in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I am gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die.”
13. Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do according to your word; only make for me a small bread cake from it first, and bring it out to me. Make it for yourself and for your son afterward.
14. For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: ‘The jar of flour will not be emptied and the jug of olive oil will not run out until the day Yahweh gives rain on the surface of the earth.’ ”