Hosea 3:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, a large amount of barley, and a portion of wine.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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

² And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

Hosea 3:2 Cross References

Genesis 31:41

These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:12

Ask 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.

Exodus 22:17

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Ezekiel 45:11

The 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.

Hosea 3:3

and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife: so will I also be toward thee.

Leviticus 27:16

And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD part of the field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing thereof: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

Ruth 4:10

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

1 Samuel 18:25

And 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. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.