◄ Amos 8:6 {5} ►
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Good News Translation
We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find someone poor who can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy him as a slave."

New Revised Standard Version
buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”

Contemporary English Version
and mix dust in the grain. Those who are needy and poor don't have any money. We will make them our slaves for the price of a pair of sandals."

New American Bible
We will buy the destitute for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals; even the worthless grain we will sell!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,

Amos 8:4 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place.

Amos 2:6 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

Leviticus 25:39-42 If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants. . . .

Nehemiah 5:1-5,8 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. . . .

Joel 3:3,6 And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink. . . .

Context
The Basket of Ripe Fruit
…5Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail, 6Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,7That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?…
Cross References
Amos 2:6
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

Amos 3:9
Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the inner rooms thereof.

Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

Amos 8:5
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