Hosea 3:2

The English Standar Version

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech[1] of barley.

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 me for as great a bride price[2] and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife."

Exodus 22:17

If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres[4] of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."[5]

Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer,[5] and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.

Hosea 3:3

And I said to her, "You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you."

Leviticus 27:16

"If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer[3] of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

Ruth 4:10

Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day."

1 Samuel 18:25

Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.' " Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.