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1. Ezekiel was a prophet who lived during the time of the Babylonian captivity. This quote relates a portion of a vision given to the prophet Ezekiel. You might enjoy reading more of the book of Ezekiel to better understand the context of this quote.

   8 Then he said to me, “These waters are flowing out to the eastern part of the land. They go down to the Arabah and go into the sea,[b] into the sea whose waters are unusable,[c] and then the waters of the sea are made fresh.[d] 9 Every living creature that swarms can live wherever the stream flows. There will be a large number of fish because these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea have been made fresh, so every living creature can live everywhere the river goes. 10 There will be fishermen standing beside it from En Gedi to En Eglaim, and there will be places for them to spread their nets to dry. There will be all kinds of fish there, like the fish of the Great Sea[e]—so very many. 11 But its swamps and marshes will not be made fresh. They will be left to provide salt. 12 Beside the river, on both its banks, every kind of tree will grow for providing food. Their leaves will never wither, and their fruit will never fail. Every month they will bear fruit because their waters flow out from the sanctuary. Its fruit will provide food, and its leaves will be for healing. – Ezekiel 47:8-12 (EHV)

   Footnotes
   [d] Ezekiel 47:8 Literally are healed
   [e] Ezekiel 47:10 The Mediterranean Sea

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