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) 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.^(D)