1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Ezra 3:7 And they gave money to hewers of stones and to masons: and meat and drink, and oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar-trees from Libanus to the sea of Joppe, according to the orders which Cyrus, king of the Persians, had given them.

Meat, in imitation of Solomon, 3 Kings 5:11. --- Orders. Hebrew, "permission." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "grant." (Haydock)