The Orthodox Jewish Bible
Hoshea 3
Then said Hashem unto me, Go again, love an isha (woman, wife) beloved of her re'a (friend, companion), yet a noefet (adulteress), just like the ahavat Hashem toward the Bnei Yisroel, who look to elohim acharim, and love heathen religion raisin cakes.1
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of kesef, and for a chomer and a half of se'orim;2 And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide with me yamim rabbim and shalt not play the zonah, and thou shalt not be for another ish; and thus will I also towards thee. 1 For the Bnei Yisroel shall abide yamim rabbim without a melech, and without a sar, and without a zevach, and without a matzevah (stone pillar, monument) and without an ephod (sacred vest used for consulting a deity), and without teraphim (household idols); Afterward shall the Bnei Yisroel return, and seek Hashem Eloheihem, and Dovid their melech;3 and shall fear Hashem and His goodness in the acharit hayamim (last days).
Source notes (3)
- Footnote Jer 44:19
- Footnote 1K 1:18-19
- Footnote i.e., Moshiach
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