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1 Kings 5:14-16
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
1 Kings 5:14-16
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
14 He sent them to the Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts; they would be a month in the Lebanon and two months at home; Adoniram was in charge of the forced labour. 15 Solomon also had seventy thousand labourers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country, 16 besides Solomon’s three thousand three hundred supervisors who were over the work, having charge of the people who did the work.
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1 Kings 5:14-16
New King James Version
1 Kings 5:14-16
New King James Version
14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: they were one month in Lebanon and two months at home; (A)Adoniram was in charge of the labor force. 15 (B)Solomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains, 16 besides three thousand [a]three hundred from the (C)chiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.
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- 1 Kings 5:16 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX six hundred
1 Kings 5:14-16
New International Version
1 Kings 5:14-16
New International Version
14 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(A) was in charge of the forced labor. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills, 16 as well as thirty-three hundred[a] foremen(B) who supervised the project and directed the workers.
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- 1 Kings 5:16 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 2 Chron. 2:2,18) thirty-six hundred
1 Kings 5:14-16
English Standard Version
1 Kings 5:14-16
English Standard Version
14 And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. (A)Adoniram was in charge of the draft. 15 Solomon also (B)had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country, 16 besides Solomon's 3,300 (C)chief officers who were over the work, (D)who had charge of the people who carried on the work.
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