Hosea 3:1-3

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3 Then the Lord said to me, “Go, and get your wife again and bring her back to you and love her, even though she loves adultery. For the Lord still loves Israel though she has turned to other gods and offered them choice gifts.”

² So I bought her back from her slavery^[a] for a couple of dollars and eight bushels of barley, ³ and I said to her, “You must live alone for many days; do not go out with other men nor be a prostitute, and I will wait for you.”