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Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a womanbeloved of her friend, yet an adulteress , according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to othergods, and loveflagons of wine.a2
So I bought her to me for fifteenpieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:3
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me manydays; thou shalt not play the harlot , and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
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For the children of Israel shall abidemanydays without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image,b and without an ephod, and without teraphim:5Afterward shall the children of Israelreturn , and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latterdays.
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