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15 Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers, 80,000 quarry workers in the hill country, 16 and 3,600[a] foremen to supervise the work. 17 At the king’s command, they quarried large blocks of high-quality stone and shaped them to make the foundation of the Temple.

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  1. 5:16 As in some Greek manuscripts (see also 2 Chr 2:2, 18); Hebrew reads 3,300.

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