7. This being told to Joatham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you.
8. The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.
9. And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?
10. And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.