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13 King Solomon raised a levy of forced labor out of all Israel; and the levy numbered thirty thousand men.
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King Solomon conscripted laborers from all Israel—thirty thousand men.
14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in relays; they would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home; Adoni'ram was in charge of the levy.
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He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
15 Solomon also had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hill country,
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Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,
16 besides Solomon's three thousand three hundred chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers.
17 At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
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At the king’s command they removed from the quarry large blocks of high-grade stone to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple.
18 So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the men of Gebal did the hewing and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
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The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram and workers from Byblos cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple.
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