| 1 | The holy seed is its stump . | |
| 2 | Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth. | |
| 3 | In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. | |
| 4 | Listen, O high priest Joshua and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch. | |
| 5 | Perhaps, it has been proposed, some of these offshoots of the Homo lineage survived until historic times. |