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Hosea 3:1-2
Evangelical Heritage Version

The Prophet’s Reconciliation With His Wife:
A Picture of the Lord’s Love

3 The Lord said to me, “Go again. Show love to a woman who is loved by another man, a woman who keeps committing adultery. Show love just as the Lord loves the people of Israel, even though they keep turning to other gods and loving the raisin cakes.”[a]

2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and nine bushels[b] of barley.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 3:1 Raisin cakes were sometimes shaped into images of the goddess Asherah.
  2. Hosea 3:2 A homer and a lethek, that is, six bushels plus three bushels
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