No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
Joel 3:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They cast lots for my people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they have cast lots for My people, and have given a boy for a harlot and have sold a girl for juice [of the grape] and have drunk it. American Standard Version (1901) and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink. Common English Bible and have cast lots for my people. They have traded boys for prostitutes, and sold girls for wine, which they drank down. Catholic Public Domain Version And they have cast lots over my people; and the boy they have placed in the brothel, and the girl they have sold for wine, so that they might drink. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
No doubt you would cast lots for a fatherless child and negotiate a price to sell your friend.
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your goods.
Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the sweet wine, for it has been taken from your mouth.
The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.
On the day you stood aloof, on the day strangers captured his wealth, while foreigners entered his city gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her children were also dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; wine, olive oil, fine flour, and grain; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and slaves #– #human lives.