Yechezkel 46:17-47:12 יחזקאל מ״ו:י״ז-מ״ז:י״ב

But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.

Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance to thrust them wrongfully out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked towards the north: and, behold, there was a place on the far side westward.

Then he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall cook the guilt offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meal offering; so that they do not carry them out into the outer court, to hallow the people.

Then he brought me out into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.

In the four corners of the court there were roofless courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

And there was a row of masonry round about in them, round about those four, and it was made with cooking hearths under the rows round about.

Then he said to me, These are the places of them that cook, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

Then he brought me back to the door of the house; and, behold, water issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house looked towards the east, and the water came down from beneath, from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round the way outside to the outer gate by the way what looks eastward; and, behold, there ran out water on the right side.

And when the man that had the line in his hand went out eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he made me pass through the water; the water was up to the ankles.

Again he measured a thousand, and made me pass through the water; the water was up to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and made me pass through water up to the loins.

And he measured a further thousand; and it was a stream that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a stream that could not be passed over.

And he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the edge of the stream.

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the stream were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

Then he said to me, These waters issue out towards the eastern region, and go down into the ῾Arava; and on their entering the sea, the sea of issuing waters, the waters shall be healed.

And it shall come to pass, that every living thing, with which it swarms, wherever the streams shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: so that everything shall be healed, and shall live where that stream comes.

And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from ῾En-gedi as far as ῾En-῾eglayim; there shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be of various kinds, like the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

But its miry places and its marshes shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.

And by the stream upon its bank, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall its fruit fail: it shall bring forth new fruit every month, because their waters have issued out of the sanctuary: and its fruit shall be for food, and its leaf for medicine.