en_tn/hos/03/01.md

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  • Go again, love a woman, loved by her husband, but who is an adulteress. - This refers back to Hosea 1:2. Hosea was told by Yahweh to again love an adulteress.
  • Love her just as I, Yahweh, love the people of Israel - By his love for the adulteress, Hosea was to be an example of Yahweh's love for Israel. (See: :en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
  • they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes - Raisin cakes were used in the sacrificial feasts of idol worship.
  • fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethek of barley - the price paid for a slave
  • homer - (See: :en:obe:other:biblicalvolume)
  • lethek - half. Indicates another half homer of barley.