Amos 8:6 - Modern English Version

⁶ that we may buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse as 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

and I said to them, “By whatever means we had, we purchased our Jewish countrymen who were being sold to the nations. So, will you once more sell your countrymen so that they might again be sold to us?” Then they kept silent, because they found nothing to answer.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken usury and increase, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by extortion, and you have forgotten Me, says the Lord God.

Joel 3:3

They have cast lots for My people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute; they have sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Joel 3:6

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their border.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.

Amos 3:9

Proclaim to the fortresses in Ashdod, and the fortresses in the land of Egypt, and say: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great disorders within her, and the oppression in her midst.”

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”

Amos 8:4

Hear this, you who trample on the needy to make the poor of the land fail,

Zechariah 5:6

And I asked, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket going forth. This represents their iniquity throughout all the land.”