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21 The charges were as follows: a quarter of an ounce[a] of silver for sharpening a plowshare or a pick, and an eighth of an ounce[b] 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.

23 The pass at Micmash had meanwhile been secured by a contingent of the Philistine army.

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Footnotes

  1. 13:21a Hebrew 1 pim [8 grams].
  2. 13:21b Hebrew 1⁄3 [of a shekel] [4 grams].

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