Hosea 3
Hosea Redeems His Wife
And the Lord said to me, a“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 bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a ahomer and a lethech of barley. 3 And I said to her, “You must adwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.” 4 For the children of Israel ashall dwell many days bwithout king or prince, cwithout sacrifice or dpillar, without eephod or fhousehold gods. 5 Afterward athe children of Israel shall return and bseek the Lord their God, and cDavid their king, dand they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the elatter days.
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