1 KINGS 5:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.”
"King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; the levy numbered thirty thousand men." — The *forced labor* (*mas*) is conscripted: *va-yigbor ha-melekh Shlomoh mas mi-kol-Yisra'el ve-hayah ha-mas shloshim elef* (the king conscripted forced labor from all Israel, thirty thousand). The *levy system* (*mas*, corvée) compels *all Israel* to contribute labor to the temple project.
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