Amos 8:6

mixing the sweepings in with the wheat. Then we can buy the poor for money, the needy for a pair of shoes.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5saying: When will the feast of the new moon be over so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath ended so that we may offer wheat for sale? Reducing the measure and increasing the price, cheating with false scales,

7Now the Lord has taken an oath by the Pride of Jacob: I will never forget all their deeds!

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Cross References

Joel 3:6you have sold the people of Judah and of Jerusalem to the Greeks, so that you might remove them far from their own borders.

Amos 8:4Listen to this, you who trample on the needy, who oppress the poor of the earth,

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:5-11

The Sin and Doom of Oppressors. ( b. c. 785.) 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 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? 7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget… Read the whole commentary →

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