47:1–12  With the vision of the river of life in verses 1–12, we return to Ezekiel’s original vision report. Although the insertion of material belonging to the Law of the Temple interrupted the original continuity between 44:1–2 and 47:1, the technique of resumptive repetition still signals the connection. The same Hebrew verb, shub (“return”) occurs in 44:1 (Heb. wayyasheb ʾoti, NIV “Then the man brought me back”) and 47:1 (Heb. wayeshibeni, NIV The man brought me back). The connection is also apparent through the repeated motif of the eastern gate (compare 44:1–2 and 47:2). In the original vision report, the measuring of the river (47:3–8) paralleled the measuring of the temple (40:5–42:20). However, in the temple vision as we have it, the river stands in parallel to the Glory of the Lo…