| Chapter 3
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| 1 | Then said the
LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her 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. |
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2 | So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an
homer of barley, and an half homer of barley: |
| 3 | And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days;
thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will
I also be for thee. |
| 4 | 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 without teraphim: |
| 5 |
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. |
