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Paul is speaking to the Gentile believers as though they are one person.
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## if they do not continue in their unbelief ##
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"If the Jews start believing in Christ"
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## they will be grafted back in ##
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"God will graft them back" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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## graft ##
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This is a common process where the end of a live branch of one tree is inserted into another tree so that it will continue to grow in that new tree.
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## For if you were cut out of what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a good olive tree, how much more will these Jews, who are the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree? ##
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Paul is comparing members of the people of God to branches on a tree (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) Alternate translation using active verbs: "For if God had cut you out of what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature had grafted you into a good olive tree, how much more will he graft these Jews, who are the natural branches, into their own olive tree?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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## they…them ##
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All occurrences of they or them refer to the Jews. |