47And he brought me back to the doorway of the temple and, look! There was water coming out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, because the face of the temple was eastwards; and the water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, from south of the altar. ²And he brought me out by the way of the north gate and he led me around by the way leading to the outside of the outer gate^a by way of the gate facing east, and look, there was water trickling from the south side. ³As the man went eastward a measuring line was in his hand, and he measured a thousand cubits.^b And he led me through on into the water; it was ankle deep.^c ⁴And he measured a thousand cubits,^d and he brought me over into the waters and it was knee deep.^e And he measured a thousand cubits,^f and he brought me over into the waters and it was waist deep.^g ⁵And he measured a thousand cubits,^h and it became a stream that I was not able to cross, because the water rose, waters a person could swim in,ⁱ and became a stream that could not be crossed. ⁶And he asked me, “Son of man,^j did you see this?” And he made me go, and he brought me back along the bank of the stream.

⁷When I returned,^k then look! On the bank of the river were many trees on both sides.^l ⁸And he said to me, “These waters are going out to the eastern region, and they go down to the Jordan Valley,^m and they come to the seaⁿ and flow into the sea where they issue out,^o and the waters in the sea will be healed.^p ⁹And then every living creature with which it teems,^q to every place the waters come^r it will live; and very many fish will live because these waters came there, and so the water will be healed^s and everything will be alive everywhere that^t the stream will come.^u ¹⁰And then fishers^v 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,^w like the fish of the great sea,^x and very many.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “way of the outside to the gate of the outside”
bLiterally “in the cubit”; about 1,750 feet
cLiterally “water of ankles”
dAbout 1,750 feet
eLiterally “water of knees”
fAbout 1,750 feet
gLiterally “water of waist”
hAbout 1,750 feet
iLiterally “water of swimming”
jOr “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
kLiterally “At my returning”
lLiterally “from this and from this”
mLiterally “Arabah”
nClearly refers to the Dead Sea
oLiterally “being brought out/are issued out”
pOr “made fresh”
qOr “swarms”
rLiterally “to all of which they come there the water”
sOr “fresh”
tLiterally “all that”
uLiterally “that it will come there the stream”
vOr “fishermen”
wLiterally “to the”
xThat is, the Mediterranean