1 Kings 17:2-14

²And the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

³Get thee hence, and go towards the east and hide thyself by the torrent of Carith, which is over against the Jordan,

⁴And there thou shalt drink of the torrent: and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

⁵So he went, and did according to the word of the Lord: and going, he dwelt by the torrent Carith, which is over against the Jordan.

⁶And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he drank of tile torrent.

⁷But after some time the torrent was dried up, for it had not rained upon the earth.

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying:

⁹Arise, and go to Sarephta of the Sidonians, and dwell there: for I have commanded a widow woman there to feed thee.

¹⁰He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

¹¹And when she was going to fetch it he called after her, saying: Bring me also, I beseech thee, a morsel of bread in thy hand.

¹²And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse: behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

¹³And Elias said to her: Fear not, but go, and do as thou hast said: but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me: and after make for thyself and thy son.

¹⁴For thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruse of oil be diminished, until the day wherein the Lord will give rain upon the face of the earth.