Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
So I gat her for fifteen silverlings, and for a homer and a half 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.
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.
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
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Context Readings
Another Symbolic Marriage
1 Then said the LORD to me, "Go yet thy way and vow an adulterous woman, whom thy neighbour loveth as the LORD doth the children of Israel: howbeit, they have respect to strange gods, and love the wine cans." 2 So I gat her for fifteen silverlings, and for a homer and a half of barley, 3 and said unto her, "Thou shalt bide with me a long season, but see that thou playest not the harlot, and look thou meddle with none other man, and then will I keep myself for thee."
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Cross References
Leviticus 27:16
If a man hallow a piece of his inherited land unto the LORD, it shall be set according to that it beareth. If it bear a homer of barley, it shall be set at fifty sicles of silver.
Ezekiel 45:11
The Ephah and the Bath shall be alike. One Bath shall contain the tenth part of a Homer, and so shall one Ephah do: their measure shall be after the Homer.
Genesis 31:41
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.
Genesis 34:12
Ask freely of me both the dowry and gifts, and I will give according as ye say unto me, and give me the damsel to wife."
Exodus 22:17
If her father refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25
Then said Saul, "This wise say to David: 'The king careth for no other dowry but for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies." For Saul thought to make David fall into the hands of the Philistines.
Isaiah 5:10
And ten acres of vines shall give but a quart, and thirty bushels of seed shall give but an ephah.