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

⁹ My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them 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 shall carry them away. Then ^(B)you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household.”

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