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19 Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears”; 20 but every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle;[a] 21 and the charge was a pim for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 13:20 Gk: Heb plowshare
  2. 1 Samuel 13:21 The Heb of this verse is obscure

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