OLD TESTAMENT

Hosea 3:3

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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.”

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Verse 3. Man’s. After the person was espoused, any infidelity was punished as if she had been married. It does not appear that Osee took this woman to wife. Calmet.—But he signified that the people must wait for God, in captivity. Theod. Sanct. lv.

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