Amos 8:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

⁶ 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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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 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 5:8

I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their shalom, and found never a word.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord GOD.

Joel 3:3

and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Joel 3:6

and have sold the children of Yehudah and the children of Yerushalayim to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the LORD: *For three transgressions of Yisra'el, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

Amos 3:9

Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, *Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Shomron, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them.*

Amos 4:1

Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Shomron, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their lords, *Bring, and let us drink.*

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Zechariah 5:6

I said, *What is it?* He said, *This is the efah basket that is appearing.* He said moreover, *This is their appearance in all the land