15 Solomon had seventy thousand porters and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains,(A) 16 not including his thirty-three hundred[a] deputies(B) in charge of the work. They supervised the people doing the work.

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  1. 5:16 Some LXX mss read 3,600; 2Ch 2:2,18

so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.(A)

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