Discovery BoxHosea 3:3 
Context3:3 Then I told her, “You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or have sexual intercourse with 1 another man, and I also will wait for you.”
Hosea 9:1
ContextFertility Cult Festivals Have Intoxicated Israel
9:1 O Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly 2 like the nations,
for you are unfaithful 3 to your God.
You love to receive a prostitute's wages 4
on all the floors where you thresh your grain.
1 tn Heb “and you will not be for”; NIV “be intimate with.”
2 tn Heb “do not rejoice unto jubilation”; KJV “Rejoice not…for joy”; NASB “Do not rejoice…with exultation.”
3 tn Heb “you have committed adultery”; NRSV “you have played the whore.”
4 tn Heb “you love the wages of the prostitute” (NIV similar); NAB “loving a harlot’s hire.”
