Hosea 3:2

New American Standard Bible 2020

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

Cross References

Genesis 31:41

For 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 changed my wages ten times.

Genesis 34:12

Demand of me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give whatever you tell me; but give me the girl in marriage.”

Exodus 22:17

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

Isaiah 5:10

“For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine, And a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”

Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.

Hosea 3:3

Then I said to her, “You shall live with me for many days. You shall not play the prostitute, nor shall you have another man; so I will also be toward you.”

Leviticus 27:16

‘Again, if someone consecrates to the Lord part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

Ruth 4:10

Furthermore, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be eliminated from his brothers or from the court of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”

1 Samuel 18:25

Saul then said, “This is what you shall say to David: ‘The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’ ” But Saul plotted to have David fall by the hand of the Philistines.