Ezekiel 47:10
Good News Translation
From the Springs of Engedi all the way to the Springs of Eneglaim, there will be fishermen on the shore of the sea, and they will spread out their nets there to dry. There will be as many different kinds of fish there as there are in the Mediterranean Sea.

New Revised Standard Version
People will stand fishing beside the sea from En-gedi to En-eglaim; it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of a great many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.

Contemporary English Version
From En-Gedi to Eneglaim, people will fish in the sea and dry their nets along the coast. There will be as many kinds of fish in the Dead Sea as there are in the Mediterranean Sea.

New American Bible
Fishermen will stand along its shore from En-gedi to En-eglaim; it will become a place for drying nets, and it will abound with as many kinds of fish as the Great Sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:

Matthew 4:19 And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men.

Matthew 13:47,50 Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes. . . .

Mark 1:17 And Jesus said to them: Come after me; and I will make you to become fishers of men.

Luke 5:4-10 Now when he had ceased to speak, he said to Simon: Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. . . .

John 21:3-11 Simon Peter saith to them: I go a fishing. They say to him: We also come with thee. And they went forth and entered into the ship: and that night they caught nothing. . . .

En-gedi

2 Chronicles 20:2 And there came messengers, and told Josaphat, saying: There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea, and out of Syria, and behold they are in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.

the great sea

Ezekiel 47:15 And this is the border of the land: toward the north side, from the great sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go to Sedada,

Ezekiel 48:28 And by the border of Gad, the south side southward: and the border shall be from Thamar, even to the waters of contradiction of Cades, the inheritance over against the great sea.

Numbers 34:6 And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.

Joshua 23:4 And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from the east of the Jordan unto the great sea, ant many nations yet remain:

Psalm 104:25 So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.

exceeding

Isaiah 49:12,20 Behold these shall come from afar, and behold these from the north and from the sea, and these from the south country. . . .

Context
Waters from Under the Temple
9And every living creature that creepeth whithersoever the torrent shall come, shall live: and there shall be fishes in abundance after these waters shall come thither, and they shall be healed, and all things shall live to which the torrent shall come. 10And the fishers shall stand over these waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim there shall be drying of nets: there shall be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as the fishes of the great sea, a very great multitude:11But on the shore thereof, and in the fenny places they shall not be healed, because they shall be turned into saltpits.…
Cross References
Matthew 4:19
And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men.

Matthew 13:47
Again the kingdom of heaven is like to a net cast into the sea, and gathering together of all kinds of fishes.

Luke 5:5
And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the night and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net.

Luke 5:10
And so were also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were Simon's partners. And Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

John 21:6
He saith to them: Cast the net on the right side of the ship; and you shall find. They cast therefore: and now they were not able to draw it, for the multitude of fishes.

Genesis 14:7
And they returned, and came to the fountain of Misphat, the same is Cades: and they smote all the country of the Amalecites, and the Amorrhean that dwelt in Asasonthamar.

Numbers 34:6
And the west side shall begin from the great sea, and the same shall be the end thereof.

Joshua 15:62
And Nebsan, and the city of salt, and Engaddi: six cities and their villages.

1 Samuel 23:29
Then David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds of Engaddi.

1 Samuel 24:1
And when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, they told him, saying: Behold, David is in the desert of Engaddi.

2 Chronicles 20:2
And there came messengers, and told Josaphat, saying: There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea, and out of Syria, and behold they are in Asasonthamar, which is Engaddi.

Psalm 104:25
So is this great sea, which stretcheth wide its arms: there are creeping things without number: Creatures little and great.

Isaiah 19:8
The fishers also shall mourn, and all that cast a hook into the river shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish away.

Ezekiel 26:5
She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations.

Ezekiel 26:14
And I will make thee like a naked rock, thou shalt be a drying place for nets, neither shalt thou be built any more: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 47:15
And this is the border of the land: toward the north side, from the great sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go to Sedada,

Ezekiel 47:19
And the south side southward is, from Thamar even to the waters of contradiction of Cades: and, the torrent even to the great sea: and this is the south side southward.

Ezekiel 48:28
And by the border of Gad, the south side southward: and the border shall be from Thamar, even to the waters of contradiction of Cades, the inheritance over against the great sea.

Ezekiel 47:9
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