“His beauty shall be as the olive tree.”—HOS. 14:6. THE olive-tree and olives are mentioned between thirty and forty times, oil-olive four times, and oil eighty times, in the Old and New Testaments. It is one of the earliest of the plants noticed in the Bible. In Genesis 8:11 the dove is described as bringing the olive-branch to Noah: “Lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.” The olive-tree occurs