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1 Kings 19:20

WEB

20Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”

KJV

20And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

BSB

20So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?”

FBV

20Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me go and kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on home,” Elijah replied. “I've never done anything for you.”

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Extra References

Matthew 8:21-22

21Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

22But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Luke 9:61-62

61Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

62But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

Acts 20:37

37They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

Matthew 19:27

27Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?”

Matthew 4:20

20They immediately left their nets and followed him.

Matthew 9:9

9As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

Matthew 4:22

22They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.