There is a man's elephant. Yet [another] man having gone [to him],
said, "Friend, give (that is, lend) me your elephant; there is a work
for me to do for myself," and asked for it. Then the man who owned the
elephant says, "Take it and go." Afterwards the man having taken it,
while it was doing his work the elephant died.
Afterwards this man having come, says, "Friend, while your elephant
was with me it died. On that account am I to take an elephant and give
it to you; or if not am I to give the money it is worth?" he asked.
Thereupon the man who owned the elephant says, "I don't want another
elephant; I don't want the money, too. Give me my elephant itself,"
he says.
Then this man says, "I cannot give the elephant that died. Do the
thing that thou canst," he said.