And I answer and say unto him, 'What [are] these two olive-trees, on the right of the candlestick, and on its left?'

And I answer a second time, and say unto him, 'What [are] the two branches of the olive trees that, by means of the two golden pipes, are emptying out of themselves the oil?'

And he saith, 'These [are] the two sons of the oil, who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth.'

And the olive saith to them, Have I ceased from my fatness, by which they honour gods and men, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?

And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become --

for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who [are] according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

these are the two olive [trees], and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand;