And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of YY , and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Yhudah, to the house of the great Elohim, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of TZor, to bring cedar trees from Lvanon to the sea of Yafo, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of YY : and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of YY ,