This is how it’s been for me twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks—and you changed my salary ten times!
Hosea 3:2 - Tree of Life Version So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and an omer and a half 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. |
This is how it’s been for me twenty years in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flocks—and you changed my salary ten times!
Set the dowry and the presents as high as you like and I’ll give whatever you say to me. But give me the young woman as a wife.”
Ten acres of vineyard will yield six gallons, and an omer of seed will yield one ephah.
The dry and liquid measure will be of a uniform measure: the bath will contain a tenth part of a homer, and the ephah a tenth part of a homer; the standard measure will be the homer.
Then I said to her: “For many days you must stay with me. You must not practice prostitution. You must not have a man, and I will be the same toward you.”
“If one consecrates to Adonai part of the field of his possession, then your valuation is to be in proportion to the seed to sow it: an omer of barley at 50 shekels of silver.
Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased over his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the gate of his town. You are witnesses today.”
Then Saul said, “Thus you will say to David, ‘The king desires no bridal dowry except 100 foreskins of the Philistines—to take vengeance on the king’s enemies.’” So Saul schemed to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.