17 lines
840 B
Markdown
17 lines
840 B
Markdown
## Hosea Marries Again
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Then Yahweh said to me, "Go again, love a woman _who_ is loved by _her_ companion and is an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the sons of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes."
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###### 2
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So I bargained for her for myself for fifteen _shekels_ of silver and a homer and a half of barley.
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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."
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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.
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Afterward the sons of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king; and they will come in dread to Yahweh and to His goodness in the last days.
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