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20 So all the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines to get their plowshares, mattocks,[a] axes, and sickles[b] sharpened. 21 The price was two thirds of a shekel[c] to sharpen plowshares and mattocks and one third of a shekel for pitchforks and axes and to repair ox goads.

22 The result was that when the day of battle came, no swords or spears were found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan. Only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:20 Or hoes
  2. 1 Samuel 13:20 The translation sickles follows the Greek Old Testament. The Hebrew repeats plowshares here.
  3. 1 Samuel 13:21 Hebrew a pim. Ancient weights marked pim are equal to two thirds of a shekel.