3I said to her, |You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.|


In Context

1 Yahweh said to me, |Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.|

2 So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a half of barley.

3 I said to her, |You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.|

4 For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.

5 Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Hosea 3:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for [another] man: so [will] I also [be] for thee.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:3Then 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 live with you."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And I said to her: Thou shalt wait for me many days: thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt be no man's, and I also will wait for thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:3and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife: so will I also be toward thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be another man's, and I will also be for thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:3and I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be any man's wife: so will I also be toward thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3And I said to her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:3and I say unto her, 'Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one's; and I also am for thee.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:3And I said to her, You shall abide for me many days; you shall not play the harlot, and you shall not be for another man: so will I also be for you.