But yet in it shall be one-tenth, and it shall return, and shall be burned, as a terebinth tree or as an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down, so the holy seed is its stump.”
Its leaves were fair, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all. The animals of the field had shadow under it, and the fowl of the heavens lived in its boughs, and all flesh was fed of it.
Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field. “ ‘And let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let its portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.