1 Samuel 13:21 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²¹ The price was two-thirds of a shekel for sharpening ploughshares and mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing 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 Tagairtí Cros

Zechariah 13:8

In the whole land,’ declares the Lord, ‘two-thirds will be struck down and perish; yet one-third will be left in it.

1 Samuel 13:20

So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their ploughshares, mattocks, axes and sickles sharpened.

1 Samuel 13:22

So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.