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?”
King James Version (KJV)


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Other Translations of Amos 8:6

That wee may buy the poore for siluer, & the needie for a paire of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheate?
- King James Version (1611) - Compare to scan of original Amos chapter 8

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?"
- New American Standard Version (1995)

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
- American Standard Version (1901)

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.
- Basic English Bible

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.
- Darby Bible

That we may possess the needy for money, and the poor for a pair of shoes, and may sell the refuse of the corn?
- Douay Rheims Bible

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; and even sell the refuse of the wheat?
- Webster's Bible

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
- World English Bible

To purchase with money the poor, And the needy for a pair of sandals, Yea, the refuse of the pure corn we sell.
- Youngs Literal Bible

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the refuse of the corn?'
- Jewish Publication Society Bible


 


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