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?"
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- Amos 2:6
"Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;"
Read in chapter → - Nehemiah 5:1
"And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews."
Read in chapter → - Joel 3:3
"And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink."
Read in chapter → - Amos 8:4
"Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,"
Read in chapter → - Joel 3:6
"The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border."
Read in chapter → - Leviticus 25:39
"And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:"
Read in chapter → - Nehemiah 5:8
"And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer."
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