that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
Parallel translations
- KJV That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
- BSB Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”
- NKJV That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals— Even sell the bad wheat?”
- NASB 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?”
- 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.
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Cross-references · 7
- Amos 2:6Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;
- Lev 25:39–42“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
- Neh 5:8I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.
- Joel 3:6and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the Greeks, that you may remove them far from their border.
- Amos 8:4Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
- Neh 5:1–5Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
- Joel 3:3and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a prostitute, and sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
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