T hey also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
وَأعطُوا مالاً للبَنائِينَ وَالنَّجّارِينَ، وَقَدَّمُو الطَّعامَ وَالشَّرابَ وَزَيتَ الزَّيتُونِ إلَى أهالِي صِيدا وَصُورَ لِقاءَ نَقلِهِمْ خَشَبَ الأرْزِ إلَيْهِمْ مِنْ لُبنانَ إلَى يافا عَن طَرِيقِ البَحرِ، فَقَد سَمَحَ لَهُمْ بِذَلِكَ كُورُشُ مَلِكُ فارِسَ.
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