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)