Amos 8:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ That we may buy [into slavery] the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat [as if it were good grade]?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Common English Bible

⁶ in order to buy the needy for silver and the helpless for sandals, and sell garbage as grain?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ in order that we may possess the destitute with money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell even the refuse of the grain?"

Amos 8:6 Cross References

Nehemiah 5:8

and said to them, “According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Yehuḏ

Ezekiel 22:12

“In you they have taken a bribe to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. You have cut off your neighbour by extortion. And you have forgotten Me,” declares the Master יהוה.

Joel 3:3

“And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a young man for a whore, and sold a girl for wine, and drank it.

Joel 3:6

and the people of Yehuḏ

Amos 2:6

Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 3:9

“Cry out at the palaces in Ashdoḏ

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomeron, who are oppressing the poor, who are crushing the needy, who are saying to their masters, “Bring wine, let us drink!”

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who are swallowing up the needy, to do away with the poor of the land,

Zechariah 5:6

And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “It is an ĕ