save a pot of oil The word rendered -pot" is from a root meaning -to anoint" and the LXX. has here -save the oil with which I shall anoint myself". The word may be noticed because it indicates the poverty of the widow. It was not the finest oil, such as would be used for cooking food, that she had, but the more common kind which every Oriental makes use of after a bath.

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