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1 Samuel 13:20-22
New Catholic Bible
1 Samuel 13:20-22
New Catholic Bible
20 So all of the Israelites had to travel down to the Philistines to have their plowshares, their hoes, their axes, and their sickles sharpened. 21 The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and hoes, and one-third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and pointing the goads.[a] 22 This is why on the day of the battle not a sword or a spear was found in the hands of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and Jonathan, his son, had them.
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- 1 Samuel 13:21 A very high price for this period.