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8 aAlso send me cedar and cypress and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and indeed my servants will be with your servants,  
9 to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the1 temple which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful. 
10 aAnd indeed I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.  
11 Then Hiram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon:
aBecause the Lord loves His people, He has made you king over them.  
12 Hiram also said:
aBlessed be the Lord God of Israel, bwho made heaven and earth, for He has given King David a wise son, endowed with prudence and understanding, who will build a temple for the Lord and a royal house for himself! 
13 And now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding,1 Huram my master craftsman 
14 a(the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord David your father. 
15 Now therefore, the wheat, the barley, the oil, and the wine which amy lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants. 
16 aAnd we will cut wood from Lebanon, as much as you need; we will bring it to you in rafts by sea to1 Joppa, and you will carry it up to Jerusalem.  
17 aThen Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census in which bDavid his father had numbered them; and there were found to be one hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.  
Verse Comparison: 2 Chronicles 2:10

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American Standard Version
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

Amplified® Bible
And I will give to your servants who cut timber 20,000 measures of crushed wheat and also of barley, and 20,000 baths of wine and also of oil.

Contemporary English Version
I will pay your woodcutters one hundred twenty-five thousand bushels of wheat, the same amount of barley, one hundred fifteen thousand gallons of wine, and that same amount of olive oil.

Darby English Version
And behold, I will give to thy servants the hewers that fell timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

Good News Bible
As provisions for your lumbermen, I will send you 100,000 bushels of wheat, 100,000 bushels of barley, 110,000 gallons of wine, and 110,000 gallons of olive oil."

King James Version
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

New American Standard Bible
"Now behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, 20,000 kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 kors of barley, and 20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of oil."

New International Version
I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil."

New King James Version
And indeed I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Now behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, 20,000 kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 kors of barley, and 20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of oil."

Revised Standard Version
I will give for your servants, the hewers who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil."

Young's Literal Translation
`And lo, to hewers, to those cutting the trees, I have given beaten wheat to thy servants, cors twenty thousand, and barley, cors twenty thousand, and wine, baths twenty thousand, and oil, baths twenty thousand.'

New English Translation
Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors1 of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons2 of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”


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