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Builders used cypress trees
from Mount Hermon
    to make your planks
and a cedar tree from Lebanon
    for your tall mast.
Oak trees from Bashan
    were shaped into oars;
pine trees from Cyprus[a]
    were cut for your deck,
which was then decorated
    with strips of ivory.

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Footnotes

  1. 27.6 pine trees from Cyprus: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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