Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Hosea 3:2 - King James Version - American Edition So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley [the price of a slave]. American Standard Version (1901) So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; Common English Bible So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, a large amount of barley, and a portion of wine. Catholic Public Domain Version And I contracted her to me for fifteen silver coins, and for a basket of barley, and half a basket of barley. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley. |
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house: I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not 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.