1. The man led me back to the entrance of the Temple. Water was coming out from under the entrance and flowing east, the direction the Temple faced. It was flowing down from under the south part of the temple past the south side of the altar.
2. The man then took me out of the temple area by way of the north gate and led me round to the gate that faces east. A small stream of water was flowing out at the south side of the gate.
3. With his measuring rod the man measured 500 metres downstream to the east and told me to wade through the stream there. The water came only to my ankles.
4. Then he measured another 500 metres, and the water came up to my knees. Another 500 metres further down, the water was up to my waist.
5. He measured 500 metres more, and there the stream was so deep I could not wade through it. It was too deep to cross except by swimming.
6. He said to me, “Mortal man, note all this carefully.”Then the man took me back to the bank of the river,
7. and when I got there I saw that there were very many trees on each bank.