Amos 8:6

WEB

⁶that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

KJV

⁶That we may buy^[+] the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

BSB

⁶Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

FBV

⁶You buy the poor for silver, the needy for a pair of sandals, and you sell grain mixed with chaff.

Extra References

Amos 2:6

⁶The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;

Amos 8:4

⁴Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Joel 3:6

⁶and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.

¹Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. ²For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.” ³There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.” ⁴There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral. ⁵Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, ^[+] we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. It is also not in our power to help it, because other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

Joel 3:3

³and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

Leviticus 25:39-42

³⁹“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave. ⁴⁰As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee. ⁴¹Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers. ⁴²For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

Nehemiah 5:8

⁸I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.