Amos 8:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!””
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“Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?”
King James Version · Public Domain“that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Amos 8:6 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 25:39If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
- Nehemiah 5:1About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
- Nehemiah 5:8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
- Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
- Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
- Amos 2:6This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Zechariah 5:6“What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”
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