Contradiction

When YHWH spoke first through Hoshea, YHWH said to Hoshea, “Go, take a wife of harlotry and children of harlotry, for the land has committed harlotry, departing from YHWH.” Hosea 1:2 First – The first word in this verse is the word “first.”  The word is tĕḥillâ.  Perhaps a better translation of this opening phrase would…