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20 So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles[a] sharpened.

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  1. 1 Samuel 13:20 tc The translation follows the LXX (“their sickle”) here, rather than the MT “plowshares,” which is due to dittography from the word earlier in the verse.

20 So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plow points, mattocks, axes and sickles[a] sharpened.

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  1. 1 Samuel 13:20 Septuagint; Hebrew plow points

20 But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

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