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.
Hosea 3:2 - New Revised Standard Version So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a measure of wine. 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. |
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.
Put the marriage present and gift as high as you like, and I will give whatever you ask me; only give me the girl to be my wife.”
But if her father refuses to give her to him, he shall pay an amount equal to the bride-price for virgins.
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
And I said to her, “You must remain as mine for many days; you shall not play the whore, you shall not have intercourse with a man, nor I with you.”
If a person consecrates to the Lord any inherited landholding, its assessment shall be in accordance with its seed requirements: fifty shekels of silver to a homer of barley seed.
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to maintain the dead man's name on his inheritance, in order that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his kindred and from the gate of his native place; today you are witnesses.”
Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no marriage present except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged on the king's enemies.’ ” Now Saul planned to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.