Amos 8:6
That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 8 connects to 9 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 …
Autres traductions
that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of 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.
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.
Références croisées
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove …
And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl …
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; …
For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold …
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel …
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the …
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring …
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.