Amos 8:6
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!"
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Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who trample on the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Amos 2:6
This 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.

Leviticus 25:39-42
If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him into slave labor. . . .

Nehemiah 5:1-5, 8
About this time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. . . .

Joel 3:3, 6
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink. . . .

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New American Standard Bible
So as to buy the helpless for money And the needy for a pair of sandals, And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?"

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!"

International Standard Version
buying the poor for cash, and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling chaff mixed in with the wheat.'

NET Bible
We're eager to trade silver for the poor, a pair of sandals for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!"
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