SinaiAmos 8:6
American Standard Version
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
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Amos 8:6 in other translations
that we may buy the poor for silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’ ”
Amos 8:6 in context
- 4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
- 5saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
- 6that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
- 7Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- 8Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? yea, it shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River of Egypt.