Amos 8:6

NET ©

We’re eager to trade silver for the poor, 1  a pair of sandals 2  for the needy! We want to mix in some chaff with the grain!” 3 

NIV ©

buying the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the sweepings with the 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 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.

MSG ©

You exploit the poor, using them--and then, when they're used up, you discard them.

BBE ©

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.

NRSV ©

buying the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and selling the sweepings of the wheat."

NKJV ©

That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of sandals––Even sell the bad wheat?"

KJV
That we may buy
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the poor
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for silver
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and the needy
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for a pair of shoes
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[yea], and sell
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the refuse
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of the wheat
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HEBREW
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rb
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lpmw
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Mylen
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rwbeb
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Nwybaw
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Myld
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Pokb
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twnql (8:6)
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LXXM
tou
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T-GSN
ktasyai
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V-PMN
en
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PREP
arguriw
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N-DSN
ptwcouv
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N-APM
kai
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CONJ
tapeinon
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A-ASM
anti
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PREP
upodhmatwn
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N-GPN
kai
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CONJ
apo
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PREP
pantov
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A-GSN
genhmatov
 
N-GSN
emporeusomeya
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V-FMI-1P
NET © [draft] ITL
We’re eager to trade
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silver
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for the poor
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, a pair of sandals
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for the needy
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! We want to
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mix in some chaff
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with the grain
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!”
NET © Notes

1 tn Heb “to buy the poor for silver.”

sn The expression trade silver for the poor refers to the slave trade.

2 tn See the note on the word “sandals” in 2:6.

3 tn Heb “The chaff of the grain we will sell.”