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Hosea 3:1-2
New Century Version
Hosea 3:1-2
New Century Version
Hosea Buys a Wife
3 The Lord said to me again, “Go, show your love to a woman loved by someone else, who has been unfaithful to you. In the same way the Lord loves the people of Israel, even though they worship other gods and love to eat the raisin cakes.”[a]
2 So I bought her for six ounces of silver and ten bushels of barley.
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- 3:1 raisin cakes This food was eaten in the feasts that honored false gods.
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