1 [3] Kings xviii. 30 ff.
Editorial footnote · On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XVIII., editorial note cite_note-11 · Original source
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Chapter XVIII.
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English translation and editorial credits: Augustus Henry Eugene de Romestin, Eugene de Romestin (assistant), Henry Thomas Forbes Duckworth (assistant).
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106. In the time of Elijah, also, fire came down when he challenged the prophets of the heathen to light up the altar without fire. When they could not do so, he poured water thrice over his victim, so that the water ran round about the altar; then he cried out and the fire fell from the Lord from heaven and consumed the burnt-offering.