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Hosea 3:2

World English Bible

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

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Hosea 3:2 in other translations

So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

Hosea 3:2 · American Standard Version

Hosea 3:2 in context

  1. 1Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
  2. 2So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
  3. 3I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
  4. 4For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.