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14 Look! With great effort I have provided one hundred thousand talents[a] of gold for the House of the Lord, a million talents of silver, and too much bronze and iron to be weighed. I have provided lumber and stones. You may add to what I have provided. 15 There are plenty of laborers available to you, namely, stonecutters, masons, and wood workers, and those capable in all kinds of crafts, 16 also workers with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, too many to count. Get up and do it. The Lord will be with you.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 22:14 A talent is about seventy-five pounds.

14 “I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the Lord a hundred thousand talents[a] of gold, a million talents[b] of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.(A) 15 You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters,(B) as well as those skilled in every kind of work 16 in gold and silver, bronze and iron—craftsmen(C) beyond number. Now begin the work, and the Lord be with you.”

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  1. 1 Chronicles 22:14 That is, about 3,750 tons or about 3,400 metric tons
  2. 1 Chronicles 22:14 That is, about 37,500 tons or about 34,000 metric tons