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20 So whenever the Israelites needed to sharpen their plowshares, picks, axes, or sickles,[a] they had to take them to a Philistine blacksmith. 21 The charges were as follows: a quarter of an ounce[b] of silver for sharpening a plowshare or a pick, and an eighth of an ounce[c] for sharpening an ax or making the point of an ox goad. 22 So on the day of the battle none of the people of Israel had a sword or spear, except for Saul and Jonathan.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:20 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads or plowshares.
  2. 13:21a Hebrew 1 pim [8 grams].
  3. 13:21b Hebrew 1⁄3 [of a shekel] [4 grams].

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