Amos 8:6 {5}
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Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,

Amos 8:4 And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place.

Amos 2:6 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

Leviticus 25:39-42 If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants. . . .

Nehemiah 5:1-5,8 Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. . . .

Joel 3:3,6 And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink. . . .

Context
The Basket of Ripe Fruit
5Hear this, you that crush the poor, and make the needy of the land to fail, 6Saying: When will the month be over, and we shall sell our wares: and the sabbath, and we shall open the corn: that we may lessen the measure, and increase the sicle, and may convey in deceitful balances,7That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?…
Cross References
Amos 2:6
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath sold the just man for silver, and the poor man for a pair of shoes.

Amos 3:9
Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the inner rooms thereof.

Amos 4:1
Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink.

Lexicon
Let us buy
לִקְנ֤וֹת (liq·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7069: To erect, create, to procure, by purchase, to own

the poor
דַּלִּ֔ים (dal·lîm)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1800: Dangling, weak, thin

with silver
בַּכֶּ֙סֶף֙ (bak·ke·sep̄)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3701: Silver, money

and the needy
וְאֶבְי֖וֹן (wə·’eḇ·yō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 34: In want, needy, poor

for
בַּעֲב֣וּר (ba·‘ă·ḇūr)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5668: Crossed, transit, on account of, in order that

a pair of sandals,
נַעֲלָ֑יִם (na·‘ă·lā·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's Hebrew 5275: A sandal tongue, a sandal, slipper

selling
נַשְׁבִּֽיר׃ (naš·bîr)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7666: To deal in grain

even the chaff
וּמַפַּ֥ל (ū·map·pal)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4651: A falling off, chaff, something pendulous, a flap

with the wheat!”
בַּ֖ר (bar)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1250: Grain, the open country


Additional Translations
Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.

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.

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat.

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"

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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