⁶ “So give orders that cedars^(A) of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”

⁹ My men will haul them down from Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea^(A), and I will float them as rafts by sea to the place you specify. There I will separate them and you can take them away. And you are to grant my wish by providing food^(B) for my royal household.”

¹⁰ I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors^[a] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors^[b] of barley, twenty thousand baths^[c] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.^(A)”