¹⁷ If some of the branches have been broken off,^(A) and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others^(B) and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,

²⁴ After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree,^(A) how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

³ Also there are two olive trees^(A) by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”

¹² Again I asked him, “What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?”