Amos 8:5
Who say, When will the new moon, pass away, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath that we may open grain? who diminish the ephah, and increase the shekel, and who falsify by deceitful weights:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4Hear this, ye who pant after the needy, and to make an end of the oppressed of the land:
Cross References
Leviticus 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin, shall ye have,—I—Yahweh, am your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 28:11And in the beginnings of your months, shall ye bring near an ascending-sacrifice unto Yahweh, two choice bullocks and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without defect;
Deuteronomy 25:15A weight full and just, shalt thou have, a measure full and just, shalt thou have,—that thy days may be prolonged upon the soil which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee.
Nehemiah 13:15In those days, saw I in Judah—some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves and lading asses, moreover also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, which they were bringing into Jerusalem on the sabbath day,—so I protested against it, as a day for them to sell provisions.
Psalms 81:3Blow, at the new moon, the horn, At the full moon, for the day of our sacred festival:
Proverbs 16:11The balance and scales of justice, belong to Yahweh, and, his handiwork, are all the weights of the bag.
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 →