Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 8 connects to 10 cross-references. The vision of a basket of summer fruit announces the end has come for Israel. Their commercial fraudsters cannot wait for the sabbath to end so they can sell grain with deceitful scales. God will turn their feasts into mourning …
Andere Übersetzungen
saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
Querverweise
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, …
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the Lord shall be offered, beside the continual burnt …
And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and …
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye …
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she …
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.
A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.