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Ezekiel 47:6-15 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

6. And he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” And he led me and brought me back to the bank of the stream.

7. When I returned, then look, along the bank of the stream were very many trees on one side and the other.

8. And he said to me, “These waters are flowing toward the eastern country, and go down into the Araḇah, and enter the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters shall be healed.

9. “And it shall be that every swarming creature, wherever the stream goes, shall live. And there shall be very many fish, for these waters shall go there, and they are healed. And wherever the stream flows all shall live.

10. “And it shall be that fishermen stand along it, from Ěn Geḏi to Ěn Eg̅layim, being places for spreading their nets. Their fish is to be of the same kind as the fish of the Great Sea, very many.

11. “Its swamps and marshes shall not be healed, they shall be given over to salt.

12. “And by the bank of the stream, on both sides, grow all kinds of trees used for food, whose leaves do not wither and fruit do not fail. They bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the set-apart place. And their fruit shall be for food, and their leaves for healing.”

13. Thus said the Master יהוה, “This is the border by which you inherit the land, according to the twelve tribes of Yisra’ĕl, two portions for Yosĕph.

14. “And you shall inherit it, each one the same as his brother. For I lifted My hand in an oath to give it to your fathers, and this land shall fall to you as your inheritance.

15. “And this is the border of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, the way of Ḥethlon, as one goes to Tseḏaḏ,

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