Amos 8:5
They say, 1 “When will the new moon be over, 1 so we can sell grain again? 1 When will the Sabbath day be over, 1 so that we can sell wheat? 1 We will make the measure small 1 and increase the price, 1 as we cheat with false scales. 1
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4Listen to this, you who trample the needy 1 and remove the poor of the land.
6This is so we can sell bad wheat, buy the poor with silver, 1 and the needy for a pair of sandals.”
Cross References
Leviticus 19:36You must use just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 28:11At the beginning of each month, you must offer a burnt offering to Yahweh. You must offer two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old without blemish.
Deuteronomy 25:15A perfect and just weight you must have; a perfect and just measure you must have, so that your days may be long in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you.
Nehemiah 13:15In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of heavy loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. I protested that they were selling food on that day.
Psalms 81:3Blow the trumpet on the day of the new moon, 1 on the day of the full moon, when our feast day begins. 1
Proverbs 16:11Honest scales come from Yahweh; 1 all the weights in the bag are his work. 1
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 →