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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: [[rc://en/ta/man/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: [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/biblicalvolume]])
## lethek ##
half. Indicates another half homer of barley.