1 Samuel 13:21
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.
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The price for sharpening plowshares, mattocks, pitchforks, and axes, or for setting goads, was two-thirds of a shekel.
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.
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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