Amos 8:4-6
Evangelical Heritage Version
Fraud and Hypocrisy on Holy Days
4 Listen to this, you who trample on the needy
to wipe out the oppressed from the land,
5 who say, “When will the New Moon be over so that we can sell grain?
When will the Sabbath end so that we can open the grain bins?
Then we will make the bushel[a] smaller and make the shekel weight heavier.[b]
We will cheat with dishonest scales.
6 We will buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals.
We will sell the chaff with the grain.”
Amos 8:4-6
Lexham English Bible
4 Hear this, those who trample on the poor and who annihilate the afflicted of the land, 5 saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we can sell grain? And the Sabbath, so that we can open the grain bins, that we can make the ephah small and make the shekel large, and can practice deceit with a set of scales of deceit? 6 That we can[a] buy the powerless with silver and the poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?”
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- Amos 8:6 Literally “to buy”
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