He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah,[a](A) where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh.(B) Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.(C) 10 Fishermen(D) will stand along the shore; from En Gedi(E) to En Eglaim there will be places for spreading nets.(F) The fish will be of many kinds(G)—like the fish of the Mediterranean Sea.(H) 11 But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.(I) 12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river.(J) Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit(K) fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary(L) flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.(M)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 47:8 Or the Jordan Valley

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