Amos Chapter 8 verse 6 Holy Bible
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
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Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
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that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and that we may sell the refuse of the wheat.
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That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
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That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
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To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Buy the poor for silver (comp. Amos 2:6). The probable meaning is that they so reduced the poor marl by their exactions and injustice, that he was compelled to pay his debt by selling himself into slavery (Leviticus 25:39; Deuteronomy 15:12). For a pair of shoes. For the smallest debt they would deal in this harsh manner. The refuse; literally, that which fell through the sieve; Septuagint, Ἀπὸ παντὸς γεννήματος ἐμπορευσόμεθα, "We will trade in every kind of produce;" Vulgate, Quisquilias frumenti vendamus, "Let us sell the refuse of corn."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) On this perverse straining of the Law, comp. Amos 2:6. Their money-making propensity was carried to such unscrupulous lengths, that they even sold the refuse of corn, little better than mere chaff.
