Ezekiel 47

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• 47:9 Wherever the river flows, every kind of living creature that swarms will live. There will be a great many fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh. Wherever the river goes, everything will live. 4
• 47:1 The man led me back to the temple's entrance. Water was coming out from beneath the threshold of the temple and flowing east, since the temple faced east. It ran down from beneath the south side of the temple, south of the altar. 3
• 47:2 Then he took me out by the north gate and brought me around outside to the outer east gate. There the water was trickling out on the south side. 2
• 47:3 As the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off about 1,750 feet and led me through the water. It came up to my ankles. 2
• 47:4 He measured off another about 1,750 feet and led me through the water, and it came up to my knees. He measured off another about 1,750 feet and led me through, and the water came up to my waist. 2
• 47:5 Again he measured off about 1,750 feet, and now it was a river too deep for me to cross, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river no one could cross. 2
• 47:6 He said to me, "Son of man, do you see this?" Then he led me back to the bank of the river. 2
• 47:7 As I came back, I saw a great many trees on both banks of the river. 2
• 47:8 He said to me, "This water goes out toward the eastern region and down into the Arabah, and it goes into the sea. When it flows into the Dead Sea, its salt water will be made fresh. 2
• 47:10 Fishermen will stand along its shore from En-gedi to En-eglaim, and it will be a place for spreading out nets. Its fish will be of as many kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, and very many. 2
• 47:11 But its swamps and marshes will not be made fresh; they will be kept for salt. 2
• 47:12 On both banks of the river every kind of tree that bears food will grow. Their leaves will never wither, and their fruit will never fail. They will bear fresh fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing." 1

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