3:3 Then I told her, “You must live with me many days; you must not commit adultery or have sexual intercourse with 1 another man, and I also will wait for you.”
3:4 For the Israelites 2 must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.
1 tnHeb “and you will not be for”; NIV “be intimate with.”
2 tnHeb “sons of Israel” (so NASB); KJV “children of Israel”; NAB “people of Israel” (likewise in the following verse).