“He went out to the spring of the waters, and threw salt into it, and said, “The LORD says, ‘I have healed these waters. There shall not be from there any more death or barren wasteland.’””

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.