Amos 8:6 “Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, s…”

Amos 8:6

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

Other translations

King James Version

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

World English Bible

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

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?

Geneva Bible 1599

That we may buy the poore for siluer, and the needie for shooes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate.

Darby Translation

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.

Young's Literal Translation

To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

Bible in Basic English

Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.

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Cross references

“That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?”

Amos 2:6 Amos 8:4 Leviticus 25:39–42 Nehemiah 5:1–5 Nehemiah 5:8 Joel 3:3

Amos 2:6 · BSB

This 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 8:4 · BSB

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Leviticus 25:39–42 · BSB

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

Nehemiah 5:1–5 · BSB

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

Nehemiah 5:8 · BSB

and 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 no…

Joel 3:3 · BSB

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

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