Hosea 3:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley.

New Living Translation
So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver and five bushels of barley and a measure of wine.

English Standard Version
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

Berean Study Bible
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

New American Standard Bible
So I purchased her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and a homer and a lethech of barley.

NASB 1995
So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

NASB 1977
So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

Amplified Bible
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley [the price of a common slave].

Christian Standard Bible
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and nine bushels of barley.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and five bushels of barley.

Contemporary English Version
So I paid 15 pieces of silver and about 150 kilograms of grain for such a woman.

Good News Translation
So I paid fifteen pieces of silver and seven bushels of barley to buy her.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So I bought her for 23 ounces of silver and 10 bushels of barley.

International Standard Version
So I bought her back for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and one and a half omers of barley.

NET Bible
So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley to purchase her.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

New King James Version
So I bought her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver, and one and one-half homers of barley.

King James 2000 Bible
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:

New Heart English Bible
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

World English Bible
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

American King James Version
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

American Standard Version
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

A Faithful Version
So I bought her for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley and a half homer of barley.

Darby Bible Translation
So I bought her to me for fifteen silver [pieces], and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

English Revised Version
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:

Webster's Bible Translation
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley, and a half homer of barley:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
So I bought her to me for fifteene pieces of siluer, and for an homer of barlie and an halfe homer of barlie.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
So I gat her for fifteene siluerlinges, and for an homer and an halfe of barley.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
So I gat her for xv. syluerlinges, and for an Homer and an half of barlye,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And I buy her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer and a lethech of barley;

Young's Literal Translation
And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

Smith's Literal Translation
And I shall buy her to me for fifteen of silver, and an homer of barley, and a measure of barley:

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a core of barley, and for half a core of barley.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And I contracted her to me for fifteen silver coins, and for a basket of barley, and half a basket of barley.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And I bought her for myself for fifteen silver pieces and for a cor and a half cor of barley

Lamsa Bible
So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and half of barley;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So I hired her to myself for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a flagon of wine.
















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