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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?
Amos.8.6
You exploit the poor, using them--and then, when they're used up, you discard them.
Amos.8.6
buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the wheat.
Amos.8.6
That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals-- Even sell the bad wheat?"
Amos.8.6
And you mix the wheat you sell with chaff swept from the floor! Then you enslave poor people for a debt of one piece of silver or a pair of sandals.