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Atomic Bible
2 Kings 4:43
But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?”
from Feeding a Hundred Men, 2 Kings 4:42-44
What it says

Elisha’s servant questions how twenty loaves can be set before a hundred men.

What it is doing

It names the visible insufficiency of the offering.

In context

42Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. 43But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” 44So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.