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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!”
Amos 8:6 · Berean Standard Bible
Amos 8:6 in other translations
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
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In context
3 “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
5 asking, “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.
6 Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
7 The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
9 And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
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