Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads. Yet they had a file - as a kind of privilege, for the purpose of sharpening various smaller utensils of farming. [The Septuagint, kai een ho trugeetos hetoimos tou therizein; ta de skeuee een treis sikloi eis ton odonta, kai tee axinee kai too drepanoo hupostasis een hee autee, 'and the grape season (vintage) was ready for the reaping. Now the implements were three shekels for the tooth, and to the ax and to the sickle there was the same subject.' This is a literal and correct rendering; but it is wholly meaningless, or what meaning there is in it is irrelevant to the context.]
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1 Samuel 13:21
21 Yet they had a filef for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.