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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Amo 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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Amo 8:4 |
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, |
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Amo 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; |
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Lev 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: |
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Lev 25:40 |
[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: |
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Lev 25:41 |
And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. |
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Lev 25:42 |
For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. |
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Neh 5:1 |
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. |
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Neh 5:2 |
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up corn [for them], that we may eat, and live. |
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Neh 5:3 |
[Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. |
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Neh 5:4 |
There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards. |
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Neh 5:5 |
Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards. |
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Neh 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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Joe 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. |
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Joe 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. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Amos 8:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Amo/8/6.html>.
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