These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Hosea 3:2 - English Standard Version 2016 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley [the price of a slave]. American Standard Version (1901) So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; Common English Bible So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, a large amount of barley, and a portion of wine. Catholic Public Domain Version And I contracted her to me for fifteen silver coins, and for a basket of barley, and half a basket of barley. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley. |
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Ask me for as great a bride-price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”
“If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”
Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.