1 Samuel 13:19-21

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁹ Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, ‘The Hebrews must not make swords or spears for themselves’; ²⁰ so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their ploughshares, mattocks, axes, or sickles;^{[a] 21} The charge was two-thirds of a shekel^[b] for the ploughshares and for the mattocks, and one-third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.^[c]