Death in a Pot

Elisha returned to Gilgal
and there was a famine in that region.
While the company of the prophets
was meeting with him,
he said to his servant,
"Put on the large pot
and cook some stew for these men."

One of them went out into the fields
to gather herbs and found a wild vine.
He gathered some of its gourds
and filled the fold of his cloak.
When he returned,
he cut them up into the pot of stew,
though no one knew what they were.
The stew was poured out for the men,
but as they began to eat it they cried out,
"O man of God, there is death in the pot!"
And they could not eat it.

Elisha said, "Get some flour."
He put it into the pot and said,
"Serve it to the people to eat."
And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

(II Kings 4:38-41)