Amos 8:6

In 11 translations

BSB

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

KJV

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

WEB

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

ASV

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

LSV

To purchase the poor with money, || And the needy for a pair of sandals, || Indeed, the refuse of the pure grain we sell.”

YLT

To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.

DBY

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

DRC

That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?

GNV

That we may buy the poore for siluer, and the needie for shooes: yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate.

JPS

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the corn?'

LXXE

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

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WLC

לִקְנ֤וֹת בַּכֶּ֨סֶף֙ דַּלִּ֔ים וְאֶבְי֖וֹן בַּעֲב֣וּר נַעֲלָ֑יִם וּמַפַּ֥ל בַּ֖ר נַשְׁבִּֽיר׃

LXX-Br

τοῦ κτᾶσθαι ἐν ἀργυρίῳ καὶ πτωχοὺς, καὶ πένητα ἀντὶ ὑποδημάτων, καὶ ἀπὸ παντὸς γεννήματος ἐμπορευσόμεθα.

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• Amos 2:6This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
• Amos 8:4Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
• Joel 3:3They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
• Nehemiah 5:8and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find…
• Joel 3:6You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, to send them far from their homeland.
• Nehemiah 5:1–5About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”…
• Leviticus 25:39–42If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor. Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of…

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