Ezekiel 47:8-10
Lexham English Bible
8 And he said to me, “These waters are going out to the eastern region, and they go down to the Jordan Valley,[a] and they come to the sea[b] and flow into the sea where they issue out,[c] and the waters in the sea will be healed.[d] 9 And then every living creature with which it teems,[e] to every place the waters come[f] it will live; and very many fish will live because these waters came there, and so the water will be healed[g] and everything will be alive everywhere that[h] the stream will come.[i] 10 And then fishers[j] from En Gedi and on up to En Eglaim will stand beside it, a sea-girt drying yard for nets; their fish for the dragnets will be of every kind,[k] like the fish of the great sea,[l] and very many.
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- Ezekiel 47:8 Literally “Arabah”
- Ezekiel 47:8 Clearly refers to the Dead Sea
- Ezekiel 47:8 Literally “being brought out/are issued out”
- Ezekiel 47:8 Or “made fresh”
- Ezekiel 47:9 Or “swarms”
- Ezekiel 47:9 Literally “to all of which they come there the water”
- Ezekiel 47:9 Or “fresh”
- Ezekiel 47:9 Literally “all that”
- Ezekiel 47:9 Literally “that it will come there the stream”
- Ezekiel 47:10 Or “fishermen”
- Ezekiel 47:10 Literally “to the”
- Ezekiel 47:10 That is, the Mediterranean
Ezekiel 47:8-10
English Standard Version
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]
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- Ezekiel 47:8 That is, the Dead Sea
- Ezekiel 47:8 Hebrew will be healed; also verses 9, 11
- Ezekiel 47:9 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Targum; Hebrew the two rivers go
- Ezekiel 47:9 Hebrew lacks the waters of the sea
- Ezekiel 47:10 That is, the Mediterranean Sea; also verses 15, 19, 20
Ezekiel 47:8-10
New International Version
8 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) 9 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)
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 47:8 Or the Jordan Valley
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