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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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  1. Amos 8:6 Literally “to buy”

Hear this, you who [a](A)trample the needy, to put an end to the humble of the land, saying,

“When will the (B)new moon [b]be over,
So that we may sell grain;
And the (C)Sabbath, so that we may open the wheat market,
To make the [c]ephah smaller and the [d]shekel bigger,
And to (D)cheat with dishonest scales,
So as to (E)buy the helpless for [e]money,
And the needy for a pair of sandals,
And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:4 Or snap at
  2. Amos 8:5 Lit pass by
  3. Amos 8:5 About 1 cubic foot or 0.03 cubic meters
  4. Amos 8:5 About 0.5 oz. or 14 gm
  5. Amos 8:6 Lit silver