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And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go , love a woman , loved of a friend , and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah , the sons of Israel , and they are turning unto other gods , and are lovers of grape -cakes.'
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And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley ;
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and 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.'
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For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince , and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim .
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Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel , and sought Jehovah their God , and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah , and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days .