Hosea 3:1-2

New Living Translation

Hosea’s Wife Is Redeemed

3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go and love your wife again, even though she^[a] commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the Lord still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them.^[b]”

²So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver^[c] and five bushels of barley and a measure of wine.^[d]

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Footnotes

3:1a Or Go and love a woman who.
3:1b Hebrew love their raisin cakes.
3:2a Hebrew 15 [shekels] of silver, about 6 ounces or 171 grams in weight.
3:2b As in Greek version, which reads a homer of barley and a wineskin full of wine; Hebrew reads a homer [5 bushels or 220 liters] of barley and a lethek [2.5 bushels or 110 liters] of barley.