And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Goodliest, in strength (Calmet) and beauty. (Menochius)
Solomon made his people work at his buildings, and David employed an officer in the fields, 1 Paralipomenon xxvii. 26. Septuagint have read in a different manner, "He will tithe. Your excellent droves of oxen. "(Calmet)
They also specify, "the tithe of asses for his work. "(Haydock)