And the charge was a third of a shekel for the plowshares, and for the mattocks, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Mended, by the Philistines. (Haydock)
The Hebrew is variously translated. "Their implements were like saws; or, they had a file to sharpen the "(Calmet)
Septuagint, "and the fruits were ready to be gathered. But the vessels (instruments for labour) were three sicles for a tooth, and the same price (or station, upostasis, a word used ver. 23, in the latter sense) for an axe or a scythe "as if the Philistines required three sicles for doing the smallest thing, when the harvest was at hand. (Haydock)
