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 - Y'all Version Bible So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer 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. |
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.
Y’all ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young woman as a wife.”
If her father refuses-refuses to give her to him, he must still pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
For ten acres of vineyard will produce only one bath, and a homer of seed will produce an ephah.”
The ephah and the bath are to be of one measure, that the bath may contain one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer. Its measure will be the same as the homer.
I said to her, “You are to live with me many days. You must not be promiscuous and you must not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
“‘If someone dedicates a part of their field to YHWH, then your valuation will be according to the seed needed for it. The sowing of a homer of barley should be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the dead on his property, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his relatives and from the gate of his hometown. Y’all are witnesses today.”
Saul said, “Y’all tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, as revenge for the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.