1 Samuel 13:20
ContextNET © | So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles 1 sharpened. |
NIV © | So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their ploughshares, mattocks, axes and sickles sharpened. |
NASB © | So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe. |
NLT © | So whenever the Israelites needed to sharpen their plowshares, picks, axes, or sickles, they had to take them to a Philistine blacksmith. |
MSG © | That meant that the Israelites had to go down among the Philistines to keep their farm tools--plowshares and mattocks, axes and sickles--sharp and in good repair. |
BBE © | But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp; |
NRSV © | so all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshare, mattocks, axes, or sickles; |
NKJV © | But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen each man’s plowshare, his mattock, his ax, and his sickle; |
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NET © | So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles 1 sharpened. |
NET © Notes |
1 tc The translation follows the LXX (“their sickle”) here, rather than the MT “plowshares,” which is due to dittography from the word earlier in the verse. |