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Amos 8:6
6 That we may buy the poor for hsilver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”
Amos 8:6 — The New International Version (NIV)
6 buying the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
Amos 8:6 — English Standard Version (ESV)
6 that we may buy the poor for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Amos 8:6 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
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?
Amos 8:6 — New Living Translation (NLT)
6 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 — New Century Version (NCV)
6 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)
6 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)
6 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)
6 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)
6 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)
6 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)
6 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)
6 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)
6 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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