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• Yahweh is God, he gives us light. Link your processions, branches in hand, up to the horns of the altar. (Psalms 118, 27)

• he went to King Demetrius in about the year one hundred and fifty-one and presented him with a golden crown and a palm, together with the traditional olive branches from the Temple; there, for that day, he let the matter rest. (2 Maccabees 14, 4)

• their branches, yet unformed, will be snapped off, their fruit be useless, too unripe to eat, fit for nothing. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 5)

• The soughing of the wind, the tuneful noise of birds in the spreading branches, the measured beat of water in its powerful course, the headlong din of rocks cascading down, (Wisdom of Solomon 17, 18)

• The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and her branches are long life. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 20)

• he sets his children in her shade, and camps beneath her branches; (Ecclesiasticus 14, 26)

• Her children will strike no root, her branches will bear no fruit. (Ecclesiasticus 23, 25)

• I have spread my branches like a terebinth, and my branches are glorious and graceful. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 16)

• Thoughts are rooted in the heart, and this sends out four branches: (Ecclesiasticus 37, 17)

• The sprigs of the godless will not make many branches, tainted roots find only hard rock. (Ecclesiasticus 40, 15)

• nothing will remain but pickings, as when an olive tree is beaten; two or three berries left on the topmost bough, four or five berries on the branches of the tree -- declares Yahweh, God of Israel. (Isaiah 17, 6)

• For, before the harvest, once the flowering is over and blossom turns into ripening grape, the branches will be cut off with pruning knives, and the shoots taken off, cut away. (Isaiah 18, 5)