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Waters from under the Temple

Ezekiel 47:11

In 11 translations

BSB
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.
KJV
But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.shall not…: or, and that which shall not be healed
WEB
But its swamps and marshes will not be healed. They will be given up to salt.
ASV
But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
LSV
Its miry and its marshy places—they are not healed; they have been given up to salt.
YLT
Its miry and its marshy places — they are not healed; to salt they have been given up.
DBY
But its marshes and its pools shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
DRC
But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.
GNV
But the myrie places thereof, and the marises thereof shall not be wholesome: they shalbe made salt pittes.
JPS
But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.
LXXE
But at the outlet of the water, and the turn of it, and where it overflows its banks, they shall not heal at all; they are given to salt.

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  • Written (Ketiv): בִּצֹּאתוֹ (“swamp its”). Read aloud (Qere): בִּצֹּאתָ֧יו (“swamps its”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
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  • Leningrad Codex reads בִּצֹּאתָ֧ו; read aloud (Qere) reads בִּצֹּאתָ֧יו (“swamps its”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC
בצאתו וּגְבָאָ֛יו וְלֹ֥א יֵרָפְא֖וּ לְמֶ֥לַח נִתָּֽנוּ׃Read aloud as (qere): בִּצֹּאתָ֧יו
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐν τῇ διεκβολῇ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπιστροφῇ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῇ ὑπεράρσει αὐτοῦ, οὐ μὴ ὑγιάσωσιν, εἰς ἅλας δέδονται.

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  • Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce…
  • Revelation 22:11Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”
  • Revelation 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
  • Mark 9:48–49where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’ For everyone will be salted with fire.
  • Hebrews 6:4–8It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age— and…
  • 2 Peter 2:19–22They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and…
  • Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
  • Hebrews 10:26–31If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all…
  • Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
  • Judges 9:45And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

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