1 Samuel 13:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks and one-third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And the price for plowshares and mattocks was a pim, and a third of a shekel for axes and for setting goads [with resulting blunt edges on the sickles, mattocks, forks, axes, and goads.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

Common English Bible

²¹ The cost was two-thirds of a shekel for plowshares and mattocks, but one-third of a shekel for sharpening axes and for setting goads.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ For their plow blades, and pick axes, and pitch forks, and axes had become blunt, and even the handles needed to be repaired.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ So that their shares, and their spades, and their forks, and their axes were blunt, even to the goad, which was to be mended.

1 Samuel 13:21 Cross References

Zechariah 13:8

In the whole land, says the Lord, two-thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one-third shall be left alive.

1 Samuel 13:20

so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles.

1 Samuel 13:22

So on the day of the battle neither sword nor spear was to be found in the possession of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and his son Jonathan had them.