¹⁵ Now ^(A)Solomon had 70,000 ^[a]transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains, ^16 (B)besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the ^[b]project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work.

^18 (A)He appointed 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry stones in the mountains and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.