Hosea 3:2

3:2 So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley 1  to purchase her.

Hosea 8:3

8:3 But Israel has rejected what is morally good;

so an enemy will pursue him.

Hosea 9:5

9:5 So what will you do on the festival day,

on the festival days of the Lord?

Hosea 9:13

9:13 Just as lion cubs are born predators, 2 

so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

1 tc The LXX reads “a homer of barley and a measure of wine,” a reading followed by some English translations (e.g., NRSV, NLT).

tn Heb “a homer of barley and a lethech of barley.” A homer was about 5 bushels (180 liters) and a lethech about 2.5 bushels (90 liters).

2 tc The MT is corrupt in 9:13. The BHS editors suggest emending the text to follow the LXX reading. See D. Barthélemy, ed., Preliminary and Interim Report on the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project, 5:250-51.