27 (A)Prepare your work outside;
    get everything ready for yourself in the field,
    and after that build your house.

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28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not (A)first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’

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17 At the king's command (A)they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. 18 So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and (B)the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.

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When the house was built, (A)it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

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