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Hosea 1:2
New Living Translation
Hosea 1:2
New Living Translation
Hosea’s Wife and Children
2 When the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute,[a] so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.”
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- 1:2 Or a promiscuous woman.
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