Hosea 3:2

Modern English Version

So I purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley.

Cross References

Genesis 31:41

I have been twenty years 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

You can make the dowry and gift I must bring high, and I will give according to what you say to me. Just give me the girl to marry.”

Exodus 22:17

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the homer of seed shall yield one ephah.

Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure so that the bath may contain one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer. Their measure shall be after the homer.

Hosea 3:3

Then I said to her, “You will remain with me many days. You will not play the whore, and you will not belong to another man. And also I will be with you.”

Leviticus 27:16

If a man shall consecrate to the Lord some of his land, then the equivalent value shall be according to the seed needed to sow it: fifty shekels of silver per homer of barley seed.

Ruth 4:10

Moreover I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, in order to preserve the name of the deceased man for his inheritance, so that his name will not be cut off from among his brothers or from his town. You are witnesses this day.”

1 Samuel 18:25

Saul said, “Thus will you say to David, ‘The king does not desire any dowry, but a 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.