1st Kings 17:2-14

²And the word of the Lord was made to him, and said,

³Go thou away from hence, and go against the east, and be thou hid in the strand or stream of Cherith, that is against Jordan,

⁴and there thou shalt drink of the strand; and I have commanded to the crows, that they feed thee there.

⁵Therefore he went, and did by the word of the Lord; and when he had gone, he sat in the strand or stream of Cherith, that is against Jordan.

⁶And the crows bare to him bread and flesh early; and in like manner in the eventide; and he drank of the strand or stream.

⁷And after some days the strand was dried; for it had not rained on the earth.

⁸Therefore the word of the Lord was made to him, and said,

⁹Rise thou, and go into Zarephath of Sidonians, and thou shalt dwell there; for I have commanded to a woman widow there, that she feed thee.

¹⁰He rose, and went into Zarephath of Sidonians; and when he had come to the gate of the city, a woman widow gathering sticks appeared to him; and he called her, and said to her, Give thou to me a little of water in a vessel, that I drink.

¹¹And when she went to bring it, he cried behind her back, and said, I beseech, bring thou to me also a morsel of bread in thine hand.

¹²And she answered, Thy Lord God liveth, for I have no bread, no but as much of meal in a pot, as a fistful may take, and a little of oil in a vessel; lo! I gather two sticks, that I enter, and make it to me, and to my son, that we eat, and die.

¹³And Elijah said to her, Do not thou dread, but go, and make as thou saidest; nevertheless make thou first to me of that little meal a little loaf, baked under ashes, and bring thou it to me; soothly thou shalt make after-ward to thee and to thy son.

¹⁴Forsooth the Lord God of Israel saith these things, The pot of meal shall not fail, and the vessel of oil shall not be abated, till to the day in which the Lord shall give rain on the face of the earth.