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Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.”</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Then the LORD said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by her husband, yet an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of <i>her</i> friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Then the LORD said to me, "Go again; show love to a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, just as the LORD loves the Israelites though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes." </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext3">So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext4">So I bought her to me for fifteen <i>pieces</i> of silver, and <i>for</i> an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext5">So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and five bushels of barley.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then I told her, "You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Then I said to her, "You shall stay with me for many days. You shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man; so I will also be toward you."</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext4">And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for <i>another</i> man: so <i>will</i> I also <i>be</i> for thee.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext5">I said to her, "You must live with me many days. Don't be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you." </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext3">For the sons of Israel will remain for many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar and without ephod or household idols.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext4">For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and <i>without</i> teraphim:</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext5">For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or household idols.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to his blessings in the last days.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king; and they will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. 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