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Hear this, you who trample on the needy,
    and bring to ruin the poor of the land,(A)
saying, “When will the new moon be over
    so that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
    so that we may offer wheat for sale?
We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier
    and practice deceit with false balances,(B)
buying the poor for silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals
    and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”(C)

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Hear this, those who trample on the poor and who annihilate the afflicted of the land, 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? 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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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:6 Literally “to buy”