And Yahweh said to me, Go againa love a woman [at present] in an adulterous relationshipb, just as Yahweh lovesc the Israelites while they turn to other gods and are lovers of raisin-cakes/wine flagonsd. aSo, apparently, the LXX, Vulgate and Peshiṭta1 The Targum is ambivalent. An alternative translation is ‘And Yahweh said to me again, Go love a woman’. אלי is marked by the disjunctive massoretic accent rebhia‘; but עוד is also marked by the disjunctive
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