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He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

1 Kings 5:14 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી1 રાજાઓ ૫:૧૪
તે તેઓમાંથી નિયતક્રમ પ્રમાણે દર મહિને દસ હજાર માણસોને લબાનોન મોકલતો હતો. તેઓ એક મહિનો લબાનોનમાં તથા બે મહિના પોતાના ઘરે રહેતા. અદોનીરામ આ લશ્કરનો ઊપરી હતો.
हिन्दी1 राजाओं ५:१४
और उन्हें लबानोन पहाड़ पर बारी-बारी करके, महीने-महीने दस हजार भेज दिया करता था और एक महीना वे लबानोन पर, और दो महीने घर पर रहा करते थे; और बेगारियों के ऊपर अदोनीराम ठहराया गया।

In context

12The LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

13King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

14He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: for a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.

15Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains,

16besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who labored in the work.

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