Hosea 3:2

New American Bible - revised edition

So I acquired her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

Cross References

Genesis 31:41

Of the twenty years that I have now spent in your household, I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, while you changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:12

No matter how high you set the bridal price and gift, I will give you whatever you ask from me; only give me the young woman as a wife.” Revenge of Jacob’s Sons.

Exodus 22:17

You shall not let a woman who practices sorcery live.

Isaiah 5:10

Ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be the same size: the bath equal to one tenth of a homer, and the ephah equal to one tenth of a homer; their capacity is based on the homer.

Hosea 3:3

Then I said to her: “You will wait for me for many days; you will not prostitute yourself Or belong to any man; I in turn will wait for you.”

Leviticus 27:16

If someone dedicates to the Lord a portion of hereditary land, its valuation shall be made according to the amount of seed required to sow it, the acreage sown with a homer of barley seed being valued at fifty silver shekels.

Ruth 4:10

I also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, as my wife, in order to raise up a family for her late husband on his estate, so that the name of the deceased may not perish from his people and his place. Do you witness this today?”

1 Samuel 18:25

Saul commanded them, “Say this to David: The king desires no other price for the bride than the foreskins of one hundred Philistines, that he may thus take vengeance on his enemies.” Saul intended to have David fall into the hands of the Philistines.