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19 Now there was no smith 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 to sharpen every man his plowshare and his coulter and his ax and his mattock.

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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