1 Samuel 13:21
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
In context
19 And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
20 Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.
21 The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
22 So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.
23 And a garrison of the Philistines had gone out to the pass at Michmash.
1 Samuel 13:21 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.
- KJV King James Version
- 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
- ASV American Standard Version
- 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.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and there hath been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads.
- DBY Darby Translation
- when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.