⁶ He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?”

Then he led me back to the bank of the river. ⁷ When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river.^{(A) 8} He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah,^[a](B) where it enters the Dead Sea. When it empties into the sea, the salty water there becomes fresh.^(C)