1 Samuel 13:21

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

The price for sharpening plowshares, mattocks, pitchforks, and axes, or for setting goads, was two-thirds of a shekel.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    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.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    yet they had a file{H6477} for the mattocks,{H4281} and for the coulters,{H855} and for the forks,{H7969} and for the axes,{H7134} and to set{H5324} the goads.{H1861}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Yet they had a file{H6477}{H6310} for the mattocks{H4281}, and for the coulters{H855}, and for the forks{H7969}{H7053}, and for the axes{H7134}, and to sharpen{H5324}{(H8687)} the goads{H1861}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and the edges of the plowshares, and mattockes, & forckes, and axes, were laboured, and the poyntes blont.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Yet they had a file for the shares, and for the mattockes, and for the picke forkes, and for the axes, and for to sharpen the goades.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Yet they had a file for the shares, for the mattockes, for the pickforkes, and for the axes, and for to sharpen to goades.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    They charged two-thirds of a shekel to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads.

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