17 And I shall have to come down+ and speak with you there;+ and I shall have to take away some of the spirit+ that is upon you and place it upon them, and they will have to help you in carrying the load of the people that you may not carry it, just you alone.+

9 And it came about that as soon as they had gone across E·liʹjah himself said to E·liʹsha: “Ask what I should do for you before I am taken from you.”+ To this E·liʹsha said: “Please, that two parts+ in your spirit+ may come to me.”+

15 When the sons of the prophets that were at Jerʹi·cho saw him some way off, they began to say: “The spirit+ of E·liʹjah has settled down upon E·liʹsha.” Accordingly they came to meet him and bowed down*+ to him to the earth.