1 Samuel 13:21 - Tree of Life Version

²¹ The price of sharpening was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the sickles, the three-pronged forks or the axes, or to set the oxgoads.

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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

Then it will happen —it is a declaration of Adonai— that in the entire land two-thirds will be cut off and die, but a third will be left in it.

1 Samuel 13:20

So all the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his sickle, his axe or his hoe.

1 Samuel 13:22

So it came about on the day of battle, there was no sword or spear to be found in the hand of any of the troops that were with Saul and Jonathan—only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.