1 Samuel 13:21

1 Samuel 13:21 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

21The price was two-thirds of a shekel for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.

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New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020)

21The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the cattle goads.

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Amplified Bible (AMP)

21The fee [for sharpening] was a pim (two-thirds of a shekel) for the plowshares, the picks, the pitchforks, and the axes, and to straighten the goads (cattle prods).

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

21The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

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American Standard Version (ASV)

21yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

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Geneva Bible (GNV)

21Yet 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.

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World English Bible, American English Edition, without Strong's Numbers (WEBUS)

21The price was one payim each to sharpen mattocks, plowshares, pitchforks, axes, and goads.

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New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)

21It cost a fourth of an ounce of silver to sharpen a plow or a hoe. It cost an eighth of an ounce to sharpen a pitchfork or an axe. That’s also what it cost to put new tips on the large sticks used to drive oxen.

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EasyEnglish Bible 2024 (EASY)

21The Israelites had to pay eight grams of silver for the Philistines to make each plough or hoe sharp again. They paid four grams of silver for each axe, knife or ox-goad.

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Literal Standard Version (LSV)

21and there has been the file for mattocks, and for coulters, and for three-pronged rakes, and for the axes, and to set up the goads.

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