Hosea 3:2

3:2 So I paid fifteen shekels of silver and about seven bushels of barley ¹  to purchase her.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble

12:12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram,

then Israel worked ²  to acquire a wife;

he tended sheep to pay for her.

[3:2]  ¹ tc The LXX reads “a homer of barley and a measure of wine,” a reading followed by some English translations (e.g., NRSV, NLT).

[3:2]  tn Heb “a homer of barley and a lethech of barley.” A homer was about 5 bushels (180 liters) and a lethech about 2.5 bushels (90 liters).

[12:12]  ² tn Heb “served” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “earned a wife.”