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Workers quarry and haul stones under supervisors with ropes and wooden levers, no modern machinery.
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1 Kings 5:29-30

Burden-bearers and stonecutters

1 Kings 5 · 1 Kings 5

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29And Solomon had seventy thousand burden-bearers, and eighty thousand stonecutters in the mountains.

30besides Solomon’s chief deputies who were over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people doing the work.

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