² through the middle of ^(A)the street of the city; ^(B)also, on either side of the river, ^(C)the tree of life^[a] with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were ^(D)for the healing of the nations.

The River of Life

22 Then the angel^[a] showed me ^(A)the river of ^(B)the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

^24 (A)He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we ^(B)might die to sin and ^(C)live to righteousness. ^(D)By his wounds you have been healed.

^7 (A)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. ^(B)To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of ^(C)the tree of life, which is in ^(D)the paradise of God.’

⁸ And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into ^(A)the Arabah, and enters the sea;^[a] when the water flows into ^(B)the sea, the water will become fresh.^{[b] 9} And wherever the river goes,^[c] every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea^[d] may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes. ¹⁰ Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From ^(C)Engedi to ^(D)Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of ^(E)the Great Sea.^{[e] 11} But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. ¹² And on the banks, ^(F)on both sides of the river, there will grow ^(G)all kinds of trees for food. ^(H)Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, ^(I)but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and ^(J)their leaves for healing.”

⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^(A)The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, ^(B)and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who ^(A)wash their robes,^[a] so that they may have the right to ^(B)the tree of life and that ^(C)they may enter the city by the gates.

²² Then the Lord God said, ^(A)“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand ^(B)and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” ²³ therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden ^(C)to work the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the ^(D)cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.