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Hosea at left looks down a modest northern Israel village lane; Gomer fully clothed at right in shade, standing separately with a resolute sober expression. A respectful spatial separation; no wedding ceremony invented, no sex, no visible lover, no accusation gesture.
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Hosea 1:2

A Marriage Bears the Message

Names that Bear the Warning · Hosea 1

Story guide: Narrated command with a national analogy. The image does not assign a specific sexual encounter to Gomer.

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2The beginning of the word of Yahweh through Hosea. And Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom, for the land utterly commits whoredom by turning away from Yahweh.”

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