Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
New American Standard Bible
So I
King James Version
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Holman Bible
So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and five bushels of barley.
International Standard Version
So I bought her back for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and one and a half omers of barley.
A Conservative Version
So I bought her to me for fifteen [pieces] of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.
Amplified
So I bought her for myself for
Bible in Basic English
So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;
Darby Translation
So I bought her to me for fifteen silver pieces, and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.
Julia Smith Translation
And I shall buy her to me for fifteen of silver, and an homer of barley, and a measure of barley:
King James 2000
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:
Lexham Expanded Bible
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine.
Modern King James verseion
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley and a half homer of barley.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
So I gat her for fifteen silverlings, and for a homer and a half of barley,
NET Bible
So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.
New Heart English Bible
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
The Emphasized Bible
So I secured n her to me, for fifteen pieces of silver, - and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;
Webster
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:
World English Bible
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;
Themes
Business life » Miscellaneous topics relating to » Barter
Marriage » Presents given to parents to secure their favor
Marriage » Wives obtained » By purchase
Measure » A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 3:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Another Symbolic Marriage
1 And Jehovah said unto me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress, even as Jehovah loveth the children of Israel, though they turn unto other gods, and love cakes of raisins. 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley; 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.
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Cross References
Leviticus 27:16
And if a man shall sanctify unto Jehovah part of the field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing thereof: the sowing of a homer of barley'shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years have I been in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 34:12
Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.
Exodus 22:17
If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
Isaiah 5:10
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.