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So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver
    and a homer of barely and a measure of wine.[a]
And I said to her,
    You must remain as mine[b] for many days,
        and you will not play the whore;
you will not belong[c] to a man,
    and I will belong to you.”
The children of Israel will remain for many days
    without a king and prince,
    without sacrifice and stone pillar, ephod and teraphim.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 3:2 Hebrew “a measure of barley”; the LXX has “a nebel of wine,” although some modern translations, e.g. NASB, have “a homer and a half of barley”
  2. Hosea 3:3 Literally “You must sit at home for me”
  3. Hosea 3:3 Literally “you will not be”