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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.
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;
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 the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins."
2 So I
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Cross References
Leviticus 27:16
"If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 34:12
Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife."
Exodus 22:17
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25
Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may 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 but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."