Amos 8:6
Amos chapter 8 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
KJV
King James Version · 1611That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Context
v.5saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
v.6This passage
v.7Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Amos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
- Nehemiah 5:8
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.
- Joel 3:3
and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
- Joel 3:6
and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem unto the sons of the Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;
- Nehemiah 5:1
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
- Amos 2:6
Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—