Discovery BoxHosea 11:1 
Context11:1 When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, 1
and I summoned my son 2 out of Egypt.
Hosea 11:3
Context11:3 Yet it was I who led 3 Ephraim,
I took them by the arm;
but they did not acknowledge
that I had healed them. 4
Hosea 11:1
Context11:1 When Israel was a young man, I loved him like a son, 5
and I summoned my son 6 out of Egypt.
1 tn The words “like a son” are not in the Hebrew text, but are necessary to clarify what sort of love is intended (cf. also NLT).
2 tc The MT reads בְנִי (vÿni, “My son”); however, the LXX reflects בָנָיו (vanav, “his sons”). The MT should be retained as original here because of internal evidence; it is much more appropriate to the context.
3 tn Or “taught Ephraim to walk” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). The verb תִרְגַּלְתִּי (tirgalti, “I taught [him] to walk, I led [him]”; Tiphil perfect 1st person common singular from רָגַל, ragal, “to walk”) is an unusual verb stem: the Tiphil (properly Taphel) is attested three times in Biblical Hebrew (Hos 11:3; Jer 12:5; 22:15) and once in Biblical Aramaic (Ezra 4:7; see GKC 153 §55.h).
4 tn Or “that it was I who had healed them” (NIV, NLT similar).
5 tn The words “like a son” are not in the Hebrew text, but are necessary to clarify what sort of love is intended (cf. also NLT).
6 tc The MT reads בְנִי (vÿni, “My son”); however, the LXX reflects בָנָיו (vanav, “his sons”). The MT should be retained as original here because of internal evidence; it is much more appropriate to the context.
