2 Kings 4:4
Good News Translation
"Then you and your sons go into the house, close the door, and start pouring oil into the jars. Set each one aside as soon as it is full."

New Revised Standard Version
Then go in, and shut the door behind you and your children, and start pouring into all these vessels; when each is full, set it aside.”

Contemporary English Version
go home and shut the door behind you and your sons. Then begin filling the jars with oil and set each one aside as you fill it."

New American Bible
Then come back and close the door on yourself and your children; pour the oil into all the vessels, and as each is filled, set it aside.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, take them away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, take them away.

thou shalt shut

2 Kings 4:32,33 Eliseus, therefore, went into the house, and behold the child lay dead on his bed: . . .

1 Kings 17:19,20 And Elias said to her: Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. . . .

Isaiah 26:20 Go, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors upon thee, hide thyself a little for a moment, until the indignation pass away.

Matthew 6:6 But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will repay thee.

Mark 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But he having put them all out, taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.

Acts 9:40 And they all being put forth, Peter, kneeling down, prayed. And turning to the body, he said: Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes and, seeing Peter, sat up.

and shalt pour

Mark 6:27-44 But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish. . . .

Mark 8:5-9 And he asked them: How many loaves have ye? Who said: Seven. . . .

John 2:7-9 Jesus saith to them: Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. . . .

John 6:11 And Jesus took the loaves: and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down. In like manner also of the fishes, as much as they would.

Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us:

Context
The Widow's Oil
3And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few. 4And go in, and shut thy door, when thou art within, and thy sons: and pour out thereof into all those vessels: and when they are full, take them away.5So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured in.…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:3
And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few.

2 Kings 4:5
So the woman went, and shut the door upon her, and upon her sons: they brought her the vessels, and she poured in.

2 Kings 4:33
And going in, he shut the door upon him, and upon the child, and prayed to the Lord.

2 Kings 4:3
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