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Amos 8:6

that we may buy the poor for msilver

and the needy for a pair of sandals

and sell the chaff of the wheat?”

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Amos 8:6 — The New International Version (NIV)

buying the poor with silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

Amos 8:6 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

That we may buy the poor for silver,

And the needy for a pair of shoes;

Yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Amos 8:6 — New Living Translation (NLT)

And you mix the grain you sell

with chaff swept from the floor.

Then you enslave poor people

for one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.

Amos 8:6 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

That we may buy the poor for silver,

And the needy for a pair of sandals—

Even sell the bad wheat?”

Amos 8:6 — New Century Version (NCV)

We will buy poor people for silver,

and needy people for the price of a pair of sandals.

We will even sell the wheat that was swept up from the floor.”

Amos 8:6 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Amos 8:6 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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.

Amos 8:6 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

We can buy the poor with money 

and the needy for a pair of sandals. 

We can sell the husks mixed in with the wheat.” 

Amos 8:6 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

We can buy the poor with silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals

and even sell the chaff!”

Amos 8:6 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

buying the poor for silver

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

and selling the sweepings of the wheat.”

Amos 8:6 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

That we can buy the powerless with silver and the poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?”

Amos 8:6 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

You buy poor people to make slaves out of them.

You buy those who are in need for a mere pair of sandals.

You even sell the worthless parts of your wheat.

Amos 8:6 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

So as to buy the helpless for money

And the needy for a pair of sandals,

And that we may sell the refuse of the wheat?”


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