2 The LORD said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by 

another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the LORD loves the Israelites, though 

they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.” 2 So I bought her for fifteen 

shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. 3 Then I told her, “You are to 

live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I 

will behave the same way toward you.”