KJV King James Version
So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
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Hosea 3:2
So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
WEB World English Bible
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
ASV American Standard Version
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;
Surrounding context — Hosea 3
1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of [her] friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
2 So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and [for] an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
3 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man: so [will] I also [be] for thee.
4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and [without] teraphim:
5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.
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Genesis 34:12Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.Leviticus 27:16And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD [some part] of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed [shall be valued] at fifty shekels of silver.Ezekiel 45:11The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.Genesis 31:41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.Isaiah 5:10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.Exodus 22:17If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.1 Samuel 18:25And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
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