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Ezekiel 47:12

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by the river: Ezekiel 47:7; Psalms 92:12; Isaiah 60:21, Isaiah 61:3

grow: Heb. come up

trees for meat: Probably, believers, "trees of righteousness," who still bring forth, "fruit unto holiness," and "whose end is eternal life."

whose: Job 8:16; Psalms 1:3; Jeremiah 17:8

new: or, principal

medicine: or, bruises and sores, Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 8:22; Revelation 22:2

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