1 Samuel 13:21
World English Bible (WEB)
The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
In context
19 Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”;
20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, each man to sharpen his own plowshare, mattock, ax, and sickle.
21 The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
22 So it came to pass in the day of battle that neither sword nor spear was found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
1 Samuel 13:21 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.