Hosea 3:3 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And I said to her, You shall be [betrothed] to me for many days; you shall not play the harlot and you shall not belong to another man. So will I also be to you [until you have proved your loyalty to me and our marital relations may be resumed].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man’s wife: so will I also be toward thee.

Common English Bible

³ I said to her, “You must stay with me for many days; you won’t act like a prostitute; you won’t have sex with a man, nor I with you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And I said to her, "You will wait for me for many days. You will not commit fornication, and you will not be with a man. But I also will wait for you."

Hosea 3:3 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Exodus 34:15

Make no covenant with the men of those countries: lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

Deuteronomy 21:13

And shall put off the raiment, wherein she was taken: and shall remain in thy house, and mourn for her father and mother one month. And after that thou shalt go in unto her, and shalt sleep with her: and she shall be thy wife.