1 Samuel 13:21 - Modern English Version

²¹ The sharpening charge was two-thirds of a shekel for plowshares, axes, pitchforks, and sickles, and to fix an ox goad.

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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.

1 Samuel 13:21 Tagairtí Cros

Zechariah 13:8

And it will happen in all the land, says the Lord, that two-thirds will be cut off and die, and one-third will be left in the land.

1 Samuel 13:20

So all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plow-point, his axe, his sickle and his hoe.

1 Samuel 13:22

So on the day of battle neither sword nor spear were found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan. But they were found in the hand of Saul and Jonathan his son.