"And Solomon had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hills;" — Beyond the *rotating levy* of thirty thousand, Solomon *also* employed *seventy thousand carriers* (*nose'ey massa*) and *eighty thousand stonecutters* (*chatzav-etzim ba-har*, cutters of stone in the hills). The *total workforce* is enormous, suggesting either *temporary seasonal labor* or *exaggeration for effect*. The *stonecutters* quarried blocks in the *hills* (likely the Jerusalem hills), while *carriers* transported them.

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