Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way.
If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again.
Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”
The child’s mother said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.”
So he arose, and followed her.
Gehazi went ahead of them, and laid the staff on the child’s face; but there was no voice and no hearing.
Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, “The child has not awakened.”