00:06and the cloud closed the light went out the sky was black and empty and silent
00:16my father my father the chariots of Israel and its horsemen
00:36and then something fell from the empty sky alone against the cloud as it began to split open with
00:44a sliver of cold light the mantle came drifting down
00:58Elisha stared at the mantle for a long time
01:14Elisha folded the mantle lengthwise as he had seen it done
01:19he gripped the strip with both hands raised it high and struck the waters nothing the river kept
01:28flowing wide and brown as though nothing had touched it then he spoke not like someone who
01:35doubts but like someone who demands where is the Lord the God of Elijah and he struck the waters again
01:45the river plunk the brown wall on one side the water draining away on the other a path of wet
01:53stones
01:54opening from bank to bank Elisha descended into the riverbed with the mantle over his shoulders the
02:01mantle of another man now his and crossed no longer as a servant as a prophet
02:14from above the sons of the prophets saw him and they said quietly to one another
02:23the spirit of Elijah rests on Elijah
02:35then they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him
02:41Elisha stood before them wet from the river at the edge of the mantle over his shoulders the scorched
02:48corner still gave off a thin thread of smoke he raised his eyes toward the west to the road climbing
02:55toward
02:56Jezreel
