unfoldingWord_en_tn/rom/11/23.md

## translationWords

* [[en:tw:god]]
* [[en:tw:good]]
* [[en:tw:unbeliever]]

## translationNotes

* Paul is speaking to the Gentile believers as though they are one person.
* **if they do not continue in their unbelief** - AT: "If the Jews start believing in Christ"
* **they will be grafted back in** - AT: "God will graft them back" (See: [[en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_activepassive]])
* **graft** - 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.
* **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?** - AT: "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: [[en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_activepassive]])
* **branches** - Paul is comparing members of the people of God to branches on a tree. (See: [[en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor]])
* **they…them** - All occurrences of they or them refer to the Jews.