⁶ Now then, issue orders that they cut ^(A)cedars from Lebanon for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants in accordance with all that you say, for you yourself know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

⁹ My servants will bring the timbers down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will have them made into rafts to go by sea ^(A)to the place where you ^[a]direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you will carry them away. Then ^(B)you shall do what I wish, by giving food to my household.”

^11 (A)And the ships of Hiram as well, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug trees and precious stones.