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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Hosea 3:2 Catholic Bible: So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and seven bushels of barley to buy her. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/hosea/3-2.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/hosea/3-2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/hosea/3-2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/1.htm">Hosea</a> > <a href="/gntd/hosea/3.htm">Chapter 3</a> > Verse 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/3-1.htm" title="Hosea 3:1">◄</a> Hosea 3:2 <a href="../hosea/3-3.htm" title="Hosea 3:3">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/hosea/3.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/hosea/3.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and seven bushels of barley to buy her. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/hosea/3.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barley and a measure of wine.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/hosea/3.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />So I paid 15 pieces of silver and about 150 kilograms of grain for such a woman. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/hosea/3.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />So I acquired her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/hosea/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.</p><p class="hdg">I bought.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/31-41.htm">Genesis 31:41</a> And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/34-12.htm">Genesis 34:12</a> Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../exodus/22-17.htm">Exodus 22:17</a> If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/18-25.htm">1 Samuel 18:25</a> And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.</p><p class="hdg">an homer.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../leviticus/27-16.htm">Leviticus 27:16</a> And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty sicles of silver.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10</a> For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/45-11.htm">Ezekiel 45:11</a> The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of a core.</p><p class="hdg">half homer.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/hosea/3.htm">Hosea Redeems His Wife</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>And the Lord said to me: Go yet again, and love a woman beloved of her friend, and an adulteress: as the Lord loveth the children of Israel, and they look to strange gods, and love the husks of the grapes. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl">And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.</span><span class="reftext">3</span>And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ruth/4-10.htm">Ruth 4:10</a></span><br />And have taken to wife Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of Mahalon, to raise up the name of the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/3-3.htm">Hosea 3:3</a></span><br />And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/45-13.htm">Barley</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-4.htm">Bought</a> <a href="/lamentations/5-4.htm">Buy</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Fifteen</a> <a href="/daniel/12-7.htm">Half</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-14.htm">Homer</a> <a href="/daniel/12-7.htm">Pieces</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-12.htm">Shekels</a> <a href="/hosea/2-8.htm">Silver</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm">Silverlings</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/joel/1-11.htm">Barley</a> <a href="/matthew/13-44.htm">Bought</a> <a href="/amos/8-6.htm">Buy</a> <a href="/zechariah/5-2.htm">Fifteen</a> <a href="/zechariah/14-2.htm">Half</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-16.htm">Homer</a> <a href="/hosea/5-14.htm">Pieces</a> <a href="/zechariah/11-12.htm">Shekels</a> <a href="/hosea/8-4.htm">Silver</a> <a href="/zechariah/11-12.htm">Silverlings</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/hosea/3-2.htm">Hosea 3:2 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a about and barley bought fifteen for half her homer I lethek myself of shekels silver So<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/hosea/3-2.htm">OT Prophets: Hosea 3:2 So I bought her for myself (Ho Hs Hos.) 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