II Kings 5 · מלכים ב

Now Na῾aman, captain of the host of the king of Aram, was a man of great note with his master and highly esteemed, because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Aram; he was also a mighty warrior, but stricken with żara῾at.

And Aram had gone out in raiding parties, and had brought away captive out of the land of Yisra᾽el a little girl, and she attended the wife of Na῾aman.

And she said to her mistress, Would my lord were with the prophet that is in Shomeron! for he would heal him of his disease.

And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the girl who is of the land of Yisra᾽el.

And the king of Aram said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter to the king of Yisra᾽el. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

And he brought the letter to the king of Yisra᾽el, saying, Now when this letter is come to thee, behold, I have sent Na῾aman my servant to thee, that thou mayst heal him of his infection.

And it came to pass, when the king of Yisra᾽el had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to cure a man of his infection? only consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.

And when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Yisra᾽el had rent his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, Why hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Yisra᾽el.

So Na῾aman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Yarden seven times, and thy flesh shall be restored to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

But Na῾aman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and so heal the infected person.

Are not Amana and Parpar, rivers of Dammeseq, better than all the waters of Yisra᾽el? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he says to thee, Wash, and be clean?

Then he went down, and dipped himself seven times in the Yarden, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Yisra᾽el: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.

But he said, As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

And Na῾aman said, If not, let then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth; for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to the Lord.

In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant, that when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to bow down there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow myself down in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing.

And he said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.

But Geĥazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Na῾aman this Arammian, in not receiving at his hand that which he bought: but, as the Lord lives, I will run after him, and take something of him.

So Geĥazi followed after Na῾aman. And when Na῾aman saw him running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Efrayim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

And Na῾aman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bore them before him.

And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and deposited them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.

But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where from, Geĥazi? And he said, Thy servant went nowhere at all.

And he said to him, Went not my heart with thee, when the man turned back from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

So let the disease of Na῾aman cleave to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence stricken as white as snow.