So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and nine bushels of barley.[a][b](A) I said to her, “You are to live with me many days. You must not be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you.”

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince,(B) without sacrifice(C) or sacred pillar,(D) and without ephod(E) or household idols.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:2 LXX reads barley and a measure of wine
  2. 3:2 Lit silver, a homer of barley, and a lethek of barley

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