Hosea 3:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and one and one-half ḥomers 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 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.

Genesis 34:12

Ask of me a bride price and gift ever so high, and I give according to what you say to me, but give me the girl for a wife.

Exodus 22:17

“If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he pays according to the bride-price of maidens.

Isaiah 5:10

“For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, and a ḥomer of seed yields one ĕphah.”

Ezekiel 45:11

“Let the ĕphah and the bath be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a ḥomer, and the ĕphah one-tenth of a ḥomer. Let their measure be according to the ḥomer.

Hosea 3:3

And I said to her, “You are to remain with me many days, you are not to whore, nor become any man’s, and so I shall also be towards you.”

Leviticus 27:16

‘And if a man sets apart to יהוה a field he owns, then your evaluation shall be according to the seed for it – a ḥomer of barley seed at fifty sheqels of silver.

Ruth 4:10

“And also, Ruth the Mo’aḇitess, the wife of Maḥlon, I have acquired as my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, so that the name of the dead should not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”

1 Samuel 18:25

And Sha’ul said, “Say to Dawiḏ, ‘The sovereign has no delight in any payment for the bride but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the sovereign’s enemies.’ ” But Sha’ul intended to have Dawiḏ fall by the hand of the Philistines.