Discovery BoxHosea 3:2 
Context3:2 So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley 1 to purchase her.
Hosea 8:3
Context8:3 But Israel has rejected what is morally good;
so an enemy will pursue him.
Hosea 9:5
Context9:5 So what will you do on the festival day,
on the festival days of the Lord?
Hosea 9:13
Context9:13 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.
