²⁰ So he said, “Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him. ²¹ Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt into it there and said, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.’” ²² Then the waters were purified until this very day according to the word of Elisha that he spoke.