^2:18He designated³⁰ 70,000 as common laborers,³¹ 80,000 as stonecutters³² in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work.³³

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Footnotes

30 Heb “made.”
31 Heb “carriers of loads.”
32 Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).
33 Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He assigned 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.

NLTNew Living Translation

He assigned 70,000 of them as common laborers, 80,000 as quarry workers in the hill country, and 3,600 as foremen.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And he appointed from them seventy thousand to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work.

KJV 1900King James Version

And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.

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