Hosea 3:2

Good News Translation

So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and seven bushels of barley to buy her.

Cross References

Genesis 31:41

It was like that for the whole twenty years I was with you. For fourteen years I worked to win your two daughters—and six years for your flocks. And even then, you changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:12

Tell me what presents you want, and set the payment for the bride as high as you wish; I will give you whatever you ask, if you will only let me marry her.”

Exodus 22:17

But if her father refuses to let him marry her, he must pay the father a sum of money equal to the bride price for a virgin.

Isaiah 5:10

The grapevines growing on five acres of land will yield only five gallons of wine. Ten bushels of seed will produce only one bushel of grain.”

Ezekiel 45:11

“The ephah for dry measure is to be equal to the bath for liquid measure. The standard is the homer. The resulting measures are as follows: 1 homer=10 ephahs=10 baths

Hosea 3:3

I told her that for a long time she would have to wait for me without being a prostitute or committing adultery; and during this time I would wait for her.

Leviticus 27:16

If any of you dedicate part of your land to the Lord, the price shall be set according to the amount of seed it takes to sow it, at the rate of ten pieces of silver per bushel of barley.

Ruth 4:10

In addition, Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, becomes my wife. This will keep the property in the dead man's family, and his family line will continue among his people and in his hometown. You are witnesses to this today.”

1 Samuel 18:25

and Saul ordered them to tell David: “All the king wants from you as payment for the bride are the foreskins of a hundred dead Philistines, as revenge on his enemies.” (This was how Saul planned to have David killed by the Philistines.)