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16 “And we will cut wood in Lebanon, as much as you shall need, and will bring it to you to Japho by sea, in rafts, so you may carry them to Jerusalem.”

17 And Solomon counted all the strangers who were in the land of Israel, in the same way that his father David had counted them. And one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred were found.

18 And he set seventy thousand of them to the burden, and eighty thousand to cut on the mountain, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.

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