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1 Samuel 13:21

21 and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel5 for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel6 for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.7

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1 Samuel 13:21 — The New International Version (NIV)

21 The price was two-thirds of a shekel for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.

1 Samuel 13:21 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

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.

1 Samuel 13:21 — New Living Translation (NLT)

21 The charges were as follows: a quarter of an ounce of silver for sharpening a plowshare or a pick, and an eighth of an ounce for sharpening an ax, a sickle, or an ox goad.

1 Samuel 13:21 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

21 and the charge for a sharpening was a pim for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to set the points of the goads.

1 Samuel 13:21 — New Century Version (NCV)

21 The Philistine blacksmiths charged about one-fourth of an ounce of silver for sharpening plows and hoes. And they charged one-eighth of an ounce of silver for sharpening picks, axes, and the sticks used to guide oxen.

1 Samuel 13:21 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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.

1 Samuel 13:21 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

21 when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.

1 Samuel 13:21 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

21 The price was a pimfor plow blades and mattocks, and one-tenth of an ounce of silver to sharpen a mattockor set a metal point on a cattle-prod.

1 Samuel 13:21 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

21 The price was two-thirds of a shekel for plows and mattocks, and one-third of a shekel for pitchforks and axes, and for putting a point on an oxgoad.

1 Samuel 13:21 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

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.

1 Samuel 13:21 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

21 The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshare and for the mattock, and a third of a shekel for the pick and for the axe, and to set the goading sticks.

1 Samuel 13:21 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

21 It cost a fourth of an ounce of silver to sharpen a plow or a hoe. It cost an eighth of an ounce to sharpen a pitchfork or an axe. That’s also what it cost to put new tips on large sticks that were used to drive oxen.

1 Samuel 13:21 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

21 The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the hoes.


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